TY - BOOK AU - Beaumarchais,Pierre Augustin Caron de AU - Holcroft,Thomas TI - The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro: A comedy, as it is now performing at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. From the French of M. de Beaumarchais AV - PR PY - 2021/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Comedy plays KW - French drama -- Translations into English N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marriage_of_Figaro_(play); A free translation of Beaumarchais' "La folle journée, ou, Le mariage de Figaro."; Release date is 2021-03-28; MFR, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro" by Beaumarchais is a comedy written in 1778. Three years after helping the Count win his bride, the clever servant Figaro prepares for his own wedding to Suzanne. But the Count, already bored with marriage, has set his sights on the bride-to-be. What follows is a mad day of schemes, disguises, and social intrigue that shocked King Louis XVI and became so controversial it took six years to reach the public stage. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64953 ER -