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The Guilty Mother
The Guilty Mother (French: La Mère coupable, pronounced), subtitled The Other Tartuffe, is a drame moral, the third play of the Figaro trilogy by Pierre Beaumarchais; its predecessors were The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. Like the earlier plays of the trilogy it has been turned into operatic form, but it has not entered the general opera repertoire. This was the author's last play.