Clavigo (play)

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Clavigo is a five-

Goethe
put his own name, although the play was received with disfavour.

The first performance of the play was by the Ackermannschen Gesellschaft in Hamburg on 23 August 1774.

It is based on the offer of marriage that the

Canarian writer José Clavijo y Fajardo made to the sister of Beaumarchais
.

During the 1970s, Clavigo was adapted as a TV movie.

External links

  • Clavigo 1902 translation Archive.org
  • Notes from a 1999
    Glasgow Citizen's Theatre
    production
  • Notes from a 1999
    Opéra National de Paris
    ballet version
  • Clavigo YouTube

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainWood, James, ed. (1907). The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)