The Road to ‘Bent’
Very occasionally a play has a significance beyond the confines of the theater. Beaumarchais's Le Mariage de Figaro (1778) sounded the death knell of the feudal droit du seigneur.
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Very occasionally a play has a significance beyond the confines of the theater.
Beaumarchais's Le Mariage de Figaro (1778) sounded the death knell of the feudal droit du seigneur.
Le Roi s'amuse (1832), Victor Hugo's savage exposé of Louis Philippe's corrupt monarchy, was banned after a single performance.
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Very occasionally a play has a significance beyond the confines of the theater. Beaumarchais's Le Mariage de Figaro (1778) sounded the death knell of the feudal droit du seigneur. Le Roi s'amuse (1832), Victor Hugo's savage exposé of Louis Philippe's corrupt monarchy, was banned after a single performance.
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