<p>Gnafron lives is Seville and is a very jealous old man who wants to marry his young ward Rosine without her consent. He takes many precautions so that no one can approach Rosine – save for her singing teacher, Don Basile, a friend of Gnafron. With the help of the barber Guignol, the count Almaviva manages to meet with Rosine. He confesses his love for her by pretending, first, to be a drunken soldier, then Don Basile’s student. A series of misunderstandings follows, so serious that, with the support of Guignol and of the notary, Rosine and Almaviva marry. Gnafron is enraged and Guignol, the mischievous barber, takes advantage of the opportunity to remind Gnafron that precautions are useless against love.</p>

Glove-puppet

France

Lyon

Typed or electronic text with handwritten annotations

Love

Ward

Jealousy

Smart

Barber

Verse

Ingenuous

Care

Wedding

Cunning

Parodistic

<p>Front cover of a typewritten copy made by Marcel Temporal, Institut International de la Marionnette.</p>