ICantSpellDawg
10-04-2005, 18:19
I'm writing a paper on early 18th century England and France based on 2 historical books and the plays beggars opera and marriage of figaro
please have discussion
it would help
Topics
1. Beggar: Through the whole piece you may observe such a similitude of manners in high and low life, that it is difficult to determine whether (in the fashionable vices) the fine gentleman imitate the gentlemen of the road, or the gentlemen of the road the fine gentlemen.
Beggar's Opera, iii, xvi.
Discuss this quotation from Gay's play with reference to English and French political life of the period. Who are Beaumarchais and Gay satirizing, and why?
2. What view of love, marriage and family is presented in each of these plays, and how do the female characters contribute to it?
please have discussion
it would help
Topics
1. Beggar: Through the whole piece you may observe such a similitude of manners in high and low life, that it is difficult to determine whether (in the fashionable vices) the fine gentleman imitate the gentlemen of the road, or the gentlemen of the road the fine gentlemen.
Beggar's Opera, iii, xvi.
Discuss this quotation from Gay's play with reference to English and French political life of the period. Who are Beaumarchais and Gay satirizing, and why?
2. What view of love, marriage and family is presented in each of these plays, and how do the female characters contribute to it?