`‘Coward’s introduction is a small masterpiece, weaving information and interpretation into a compelling narrative in a way which makes it alone worth the modest price of the volume.’ ‘David Coward’s translations cope admirably with Beaumarchais’ wide range of tones and registers in three very different plays, and are as speakable as they are readable.’ ‘this excellent volume provides an admirable introduction for the English-speaking reader toBeaumarchais’ greatest creation”Times Literary Supplement

David Coward is the author of studies of Marivaux, Marguerite Duras, Marcel Pagnol, and Restif de la Bretonne, as well as A History of French Literature. For OWC, he has edited eight novels by Alexandre Dumas and translated Dumas fils’ La Dame aux camélias, two selections of Maupassant short stories, Sade’s Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales, and Diderot’s Jacques the Fatalist. He reviews regularly for the TLS and the London Review of Books.

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