Author: John Gay
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191645761
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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.
The Beggar's Opera and Polly
Author: John Gay
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191645761
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191645761
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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.
The Beggar's Opera
Author: John Gay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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John Gay's The Beggar's Opera
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Chelsea House
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher: Chelsea House
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Gay's Beggar's Opera
Author: William Eben Schultz
Publisher: New York : Russell & Russell
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today.
Publisher: New York : Russell & Russell
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today.
The Beggar's Opera
Author: John Gay
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Gay's The Beggar's Opera
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Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Languages : en
Pages : 120
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The Beggar's Opera
Author: John Gay
Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Den fuldstændige libretto og musikken til alle sangene (for klaver med underlagte tekster), arrangeret af J.C. Pepusch
Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Den fuldstændige libretto og musikken til alle sangene (for klaver med underlagte tekster), arrangeret af J.C. Pepusch
John Gay
Author: Peter Elfed Lewis
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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The Beggar's Opera
Author: John Gay
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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John Gay
Author: Peter Elfed Lewis
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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