The Beggar's Opera
$30.05
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
27 August 1986
Summary
The Beggar’s Opera: A Scandalous Satire
The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows, became the theatrical sensation of the eighteenth century.
In The Beggar’s Opera, John Gay turned conventions of Italian opera riotously upside-down, instead using traditional popular ballads and street tunes, while also indulging in political satire at the expense of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140432206 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140432205 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | John Gay, Bryan Loughrey, T.O. Treadwell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 27 August 1986 |
| Weight: | 102g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 8mm |
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About The Author
John Gay
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’.
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