18p. 21.5 cm. Disbound. Frontispiece, title page and page of dramatis personae disconnected from the rest of the text which remains sewn together. Good condition. John Gay's three-act play, The Beggar's Opera (1728) is a ballad opera with music originally by Johann Christoph Pepusch. A classic satire of the Augustan period in English literature, the play is in part still popular today because of Bertoldt Brecht's revision of the play as The Three-Penny Opera in 1928 to celebrate the play's 200th anniversary. Seller Inventory # 114487

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Title: The Beggar's Opera

Publisher: for J. Wenman, London

Publication Date: 1777

Binding: Disbound

Condition: Good

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