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 Gu
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