Talk:The Guilty Mother

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I translated the act-by-act summary from the French wikipedia article. However, it reads like it originally may have been written up by someone with a foggy memory -- a lot of important details of the plot are left out, and they even seemed to have misremembered some points (which I tried to correct.) So, if anyone's got a copy and is up for reading through, feel free to elaborate or improve upon it.--76.18.93.72 (talk) 11:00, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Comments and suggestions

• References and sources? --Mdukas (talk) 02:49, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

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The Guilty Mother is the third play of the Figaro trilogy by Pierre Beaumarchais, following The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. Like its predecessors, it has been turned into operatic form, but unlike them, has failed to enter the general opera repertoire. This 1876 illustration by Émile Bayard shows one of the main characters, the Irishman Bégearss, a major in the Spanish military, and a great schemer and stirrer-up of trouble.

Illustration credit: Émile Bayard; restored by Adam Cuerden

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