This author wrote about the bumbling valet Drink in a play whose title character secretly marries the Earl of Clarendon. In another of this author's plays, the Irishman Begearss fabricates a letter in an attempt to have Leon 
This author wrote about the bumbling valet Drink in a play whose title character secretly marries the Earl of Clarendon. In another of this author's plays, the Irishman Begearss fabricates a letter in an attempt to have Leon exiled to Malta so he can marry Florestine";that play is performed as an opera within an opera in John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles. This author of Eugenie and The Guilty Mother achieved his greatest success with a monologue in which a character tells his rival "You merely took the trouble of being born and nothing else." He wrote a trilogy of plays about the husband of Suzanne, who brings together Rosina and Count Almaviva while working as a barber. For 10 points, name this French playwright of The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro.
This author wrote about the bumbling valet Drink in a play whose title character secretly marries the Earl of Clarendon.
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais