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‘Why,’ says Almaviva to Figaro, ‘is there always something louche about everything you do?’

David Coward

  • The Figaro Plays by Pierre de Beaumarchais, translated by John Wells

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David Coward is emeritus professor of French at the University of Leeds. His translation of Hedi Kaddour’s Waltenberg will be published next spring.

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