The Guilty Mother

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The Guilty Mother is the final play in Pierre Beaumarchais’s Figaro trilogy, a French drama that continues the story of Figaro and the Almaviva household with darker, more serious themes.

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The Guilty Mother canonical 6

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French play
drama
play
stage work
alsoKnownAs The Guilty Mother, or The Other Tartuffe
author Pierre Beaumarchais
chronologicalPositionInSeries third play in the Figaro trilogy
countryOfOrigin France
featuresCharacter Bégearss
Count Almaviva
linked to: Almaviva

Countess Almaviva
Figaro
Suzanne
firstPerformanceDate 1792
firstPerformancePlace Paris
follows The Barber of Seville
The Marriage of Figaro
genre comedy-drama
drama
hasAdaptation film and television adaptations
opera adaptations
hasPageIn French theatre history
languageOfWork French
literaryMovement French Enlightenment-to-Revolutionary era theatre
mainCharacter Bégearss
Count Almaviva
linked to: Almaviva

Countess Almaviva
Figaro
Florestine
Léon
Suzanne
originalTitle La Mère coupable
partOfSeries Figaro trilogy
prequel The Barber of Seville
The Marriage of Figaro
settingLocation household of the Count Almaviva
subjectOf literary criticism on the Figaro trilogy
theme family conflict
forgiveness
guilt
illegitimacy
political intrigue
timePeriodOfSetting late 18th century
tone darker than earlier Figaro plays
workChronology last of Beaumarchais’s Figaro plays

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The Marriage of Figaro precedes The Guilty Mother
The Ghosts of Versailles basedOn The Guilty Mother
La Mère coupable alternateTitle The Guilty Mother
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais notableWork The Guilty Mother
subject linked to: Geneviève-Madeleine Wattebled
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais notableWork The Guilty Mother
subject linked to: Pierre-Augustin Caron
Countess Almaviva appearsIn The Guilty Mother