For 10 points, name this French comic playwright of The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville.
In the fifth act of a play by this author, a character delivers a lengthy monologue in which he declares that: "I came into the world without my Knowledge, and I shall go out on't without my Will." In that play by this author, immediately after a court forces the protagonist to marry a woman, she recognizes the lobster birthmark on his arm and realizes that he is her son. The villainous Irishman Bégearss designs a box with a special compartment to hide a letter revealing a one night stand, in a play subtitled "The Other Tartuffe" that caps off a (*) trilogy by this author. This author's experiences inventing an escapement for pocket watches, teaching the harp to Louis XV's daughters, and setting up a shell company to funnel arms to the American revolutionaries inspired his character who encourages his master to disguise himself as the soldier Lindor and the music teacher Alonzo to woo Dr. Bartholo's ward Rosine. For 10 points, name this French comic playwright of The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville.
In the fifth act of a play by this author, a character delivers a lengthy monologue in which he declares that: "I came into the world without my Knowledge, and I shall go out on't without my Will."
Pierre Beaumarchais [or Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais]