The Beggar's Opera (Regents Restoration Drama Series) - Softcover

Gay, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803253613 ISBN 13: 9780803253612

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1969

Synopsis

The Beggar's Opera introduced to theater the ballad-opera and an immortal cast of characters. The Peachums, employers of a company of pickpockets, shoplifters, and thieves, raised their daughter Polly for finer things, but she has done a dreadful deed. She has married for love. Her husband is Macheath, so exquisite a robber he might have been a lawyer or lord, and so devoted to matrimony that he has two or three wives already.

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Review:

"Offers a useful performance history of the satirical ballad-opera...the New Mermaids [edition] includes music as well as words for the songs."--"Plays International"

Offers a useful performance history of the satirical ballad-opera...the New Mermaids [edition] includes music as well as words for the songs. Plays International"

"Offers a useful performance history of the satirical ballad-opera...the New Mermaids [edition] includes music as well as words for the songs." --Plays International

About the Author:

Born in 1685, John Gay's first major success was THE SHEPHERD'S WEEK. It was followed by a number of other works, the most enduring of which is THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Gay died in 1732, and is remembered as a popular and genial man whose self-penned epitaph reads 'Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought it once, and now I know it'.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0803253613
• ISBN 13: 9780803253612
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Roberts Edgar V., Smith Edward