
Published online:
24 May 2012
Published in print:
07 February 2007
Online ISBN:
9780520932968
Print ISBN:
9780520248021
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Context, Connections, and the Possibility of Change Context, Connections, and the Possibility of Change
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Lost and Found Lost and Found
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History Repeats Itself: Barbarina History Repeats Itself: Barbarina
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Chapter
chapter 8 Woman's Identity II: Loss and Legitimacy
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194–212
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Published:February 2007
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Brown-Montesano, Kristi, 'Woman's Identity II: Loss and Legitimacy', Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas (Oakland, CA , 2007; online edn, California Scholarship Online, 24 May 2012), https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520248021.003.0008, accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
The premieres of Le barbier de Seville (1775) and Le mariage de Figaro (1784) were separated by nine years of royalty disputes, censorship, and imperial prohibition. Le marriage was an amazing success, but Beaumarchais indicated in the preface of its first edition that he regretted having cut one particular passage: Marceline's imposing speech on the injustices and abuses which men inflict on women of every rank. In the original play, her wild scheme to force Figaro's hand in marriage as payment of a debt he owes her seems like a desperate grab at the happiness she was denied long ago.
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