Author: John GayPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 123
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Polly: an Opera. Being the Second Part of the Beggars' Opera.
Author: John GayPOLLY: AN OPERA. BEING THE SECOND PART OF THE BEGGAR's OPERA. Written by Mr. GAY
Author: Polly
Author: John GayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballad operas
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Polly
Author: John Christopher PepuschPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballad operas
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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The Beggar's Opera and Polly
Author: John GayPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191645761
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
'Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives.' With The Beggar's Opera (1728), John Gay created one of the most enduringly popular works in English theatre history, and invented a new dramatic form, the ballad opera. Gay's daring mixture of caustic political satire, well-loved popular tunes, and a story of crime and betrayal set in the urban underworld of prostitutes and thieves was an overnight sensation. Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum have become famous well beyond the confines of Gay's original play, and in its sequel, Polly, banned in Gay's lifetime, their adventures continue in the West Indies. With a cross-dressing heroine and a cast of female adventurers, pirates, Indian princes, rebel slaves, and rapacious landowners, Polly lays bare a culture in which all human relationships are reduced to commercial transactions. Raucous, lyrical, witty, ironic and tragic by turns, The Beggar's Opera and Polly - published together here for the first time - offer a scathing and ebullient portrait of a society in which statesmen and outlaws, colonialists and pirates, are impossible to tell apart. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Polly
Author: JOHN. GAYPublisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781385202319
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Harvard University Houghton Library N011889 The music was selected and arranged by J. C. Pepusch. A reissue, with a cancel titlepage and with engraved music, of one of the 1729 London "T.Thomson" pirated editions. In this issue, pp.9,21 contain 42 lines, and p.47, l.1 reads "Permission"; plate 4 of the music is headed "Air 15." London: printed [by James Watson?] for Tho. Astley, [1743?]. ix, [1],62p.,16plates: engr.music; 8°
The Beggars Opera and Polly, an Opera, Being the 2. Part of the Beggars Opera. London 1777
Author: John GayThe Second Part of The Beggar's Opera
Author: John GayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballad operas
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Gay's Beggar's Opera
Author: William Eben SchultzPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Polly
Author: John GayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballad operas
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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