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* IllGirl: Fosca fits this trope perfectly. Interestingly, no one is really sure what illness Fosca has--her doctor describes it as a "nervous disorder," since it causes her have seizures and screaming fits, and it's at least partially the result of a DarkAndTroubledPast. In essence, her trauma and desperation for love are manifesting physically.
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* IllGirl: Fosca fits this trope perfectly. Interestingly, no one is really sure what illness Fosca has--her doctor describes it as a "nervous disorder," since it causes her have seizures and screaming fits, and it's at least partially the result of a DarkAndTroubledPast. In essence, her trauma and desperation for love are manifesting physically. The best guess is some kind of conversion disorder, but she ''is'' debilitated by it [[spoiler:to the point of dying from exhaustion after finally making love with Giorgio]].
* IWasQuiteALooker: Fosca is still a young woman, but she grew up believing she was beautiful before her mistreatment at the hands of her husband made her a sickly, unstable wreck. It's unclear if she actually ''was'' beautiful, but her illness and resulting dourness about being ill (and habit of dressing like she's already mourning her own death) can't have helped how she presently looks.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Fosca is still a young woman, but she grew up believing she was beautiful before her mistreatment at the hands of her husband made her a sickly, unstable wreck. It's unclear if she actually ''was'' beautiful, but her illness and resulting dourness about being ill (and habit of dressing like she's already mourning her own death) can't have helped how she presently looks.
** This is also, interestingly, almost the ''moral'' of the show, and not presented as a negative. Giorgio comes to realize he would rather be loved heedlessly and fully by Fosca, no matter how crazy it makes them both, than at Clara's convenience.
* MrsRobinson: Clara is much older than Giorgio, with a husband and a young son. Later in the show she writes to Giorgio in dismay over finding her FirstGreyHair.
* MrsRobinson: Clara is much older than Giorgio, with a husband and a young son. Later in the show she writes to Giorgio in dismay over finding her FirstGreyHair.
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Fosca is in her late twenties but is usually played by older actresses to suggest her illness has prematurely aged her.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Fosca is in her late twenties but is usually played by older actresses to suggest her illness has prematurely aged her.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: No one is really sure what illness Fosca has--her doctor describes it as a "nervous disorder," and it causes her have seizures and screaming fits. The Colonel later reveals that it's partially based on [[FreudianExcuse trauma]]--as a young woman, Fosca married an Austrian count who stole all of her family's money and concealed the fact that he already had a wife and child, and upon being confronted with the latter, freely admitted it. The shock and betrayal led to Fosca's symptoms, and they've persisted until the present.
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* IllGirl: Fosca fits this trope perfectly. Interestingly, no one is really sure what illness Fosca has--her doctor describes it as a "nervous disorder," since it causes her have seizures and screaming fits, and it's at least partially the result of a DarkAndTroubledPast. In essence, her trauma and desperation for love are manifesting physically.
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* MySisterIsOffLimits: Cousin in this case. The Colonel and Fosca are cousins, and when the former finds the love letter Giorgio wrote to Fosca (which he only did at her own insistence and didn't actually mean), he accuses Giorgio of leading her on and challenges him to a duel. [[spoiler: Giorgio wins, but the Colonel makes a full recovery.]]
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* AmbiguousDisorder: No one is really sure what illness Fosca has--her doctor describes it as a "nervous disorder," and it causes her have seizures and screaming fits. The Colonel later reveals that it's partially based on [[FreudianExcuse trauma]]--as a young woman, Fosca married an Austrian count who stole all of her family's money and concealed the fact that he already had a wife and child, and upon being confronted with the latter, freely admitted it. The shock and betrayal led to Fosca's symptoms, and they've persisted until the present.
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* GoldDigger: Fosca's DarkAndTroubledPast features one. She comes from a wealthy family, and at seventeen, her cousin the Colonel introduced her to an Austrian count who immediately started wooing her. It wasn't until after they were married--and he'd stolen all of her fortune--that she discovered that the count had a wife and child already.
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* IAmNotPretty: Fosca, although it is revealed by the Colonel that she grew up thinking she ''was'' beautiful, until the death of her parents.
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* IAmNotPretty: Fosca, although it is revealed by the Colonel that she grew up thinking she ''was'' beautiful, until the death of her parents.parents and abuse by her former husband, an Austrian count who was already married with a child when he wooed Fosca for her money.
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* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: It's based on the 1869 novel ''Fosca'' by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, and the 1981 Ettore Scola film ''Passione d'Amore'', the latter of which inspired Sondheim to write the show.
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* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: It's based on the 1869 novel ''Fosca'' by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, and the 1981 Ettore Scola Creator/EttoreScola film ''Passione d'Amore'', the latter of which inspired Sondheim to write the show.
