«I cobble together a verse comedy about the customs of the harem, assuming that, as a Spanish writer, I can say what I like about Mohammed without drawing hostile fire. Next thing, some envoy from God knows where turns up and complains that in my play I have offended the Ottoman empire, Persia, a large slice of the Indian peninsula, the whole of Egypt, and the kingdoms of Barca {Ethiopia}, Tripoli, Tunisi, Algeria, and Morocco. And so my play sinks without trace, all to placate a bunch of Muslim princes, not one of whom, as far as I know, can read but who beat the living daylights out of us and say we are 'Christian dogs.' Since they can't stop a man thinking, they take it out on his hide instead...»
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, As Bodas de Fígaro*
*As Bodas de Fígaro, com libreto de Lorenzo da Ponte, foi criada por Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart a partir de uma comédia escrita em 1784 por Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, o mesmo autor de «O Barbeiro de Sevilha», escrita em 1775 e transformada em ópera por Rossini, e de «A mãe culpada», escrita em 1792.
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