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The Beggar's Opera and Polly

Author : John Gay
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191645761
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Beggar's Opera and Polly written by John Gay and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beggar's Opera written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Beggar's Opera

Author : John Gay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beggar's Opera written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Den fuldstændige libretto og musikken til alle sangene (for klaver med underlagte tekster), arrangeret af J.C. Pepusch

John Gay and the London Theatre

Author : Calhoun Winton
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813159369
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book John Gay and the London Theatre written by Calhoun Winton and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beggar's Opera, often referred to today as the first musical comedy, was the most popular dramatic piece of the eighteenth century -- and is the work that John Gay (1685-1732) is best remembered for having written. That association of popular music and satiric lyrics has proved to be continuingly attractive, and variations on the Opera have flourished in this century: by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, by Duke Ellington, and most recently by Vaclav Havel. The original opera itself is played all over the world in amateur and professional productions. But John Gay's place in all this has not been well defined. His Opera is often regarded as some sort of chance event. In John Gay and the London Theatre, the first book-length study of John Gay as dramatic author, Calhoun Winton recognized the Opera as part of an entirely self-conscious career in the theatre, a career that Gay pursued from his earliest days as a writer in London and continued to follow to his death. Winton emphasizes Gay's knowledge of and affection for music, acquired, he argues, by way of his association with Handel. Although concentrating on Gay and his theatrical career, Winton also limns a vivid portrait of London itself and of the London stage of Gay's time, a period of considerable turbulence both within and outside the theatre. Gay's plays reflect in varying ways and degrees that social, political, and cultural turmoil. Winton's study sheds new light not only on Gay and the theatre, but also on the politics and culture of his era.

The Beggar's Opera

Author : John Gay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beggar's Opera written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gay's The Beggar's Opera

Author : John Christopher Pepusch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
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Download or read book Gay's The Beggar's Opera written by John Christopher Pepusch and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John Gay's The Beggar's Opera

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Chelsea House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book John Gay's The Beggar's Opera written by Harold Bloom and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 1988 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John Gay

Author : Peter Elfed Lewis
Publisher : Hodder Education
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book John Gay written by Peter Elfed Lewis and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 1976 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Beggar's Opera

Author : John Gay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Beggar's Opera written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Beggar's Opera

Author : John Gay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
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Download or read book The Beggar's Opera written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1771 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gay's Beggar's Opera

Author : William Eben Schultz
Publisher : New York : Russell & Russell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Gay's Beggar's Opera written by William Eben Schultz and published by New York : Russell & Russell. This book was released on 1967 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781522995234
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book The Beggar's Opera written by John Gay and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beggar's Opera A Ballad Opera in Three Acts By John Gay 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. Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the conventions of opera, but without recitative. The lyrics of the airs in the piece are set to popular broadsheet ballads, opera arias, church hymns and folk tunes of the time. The Beggar's Opera premiered at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre on 29 January 1728 and ran for 62 consecutive performances, the longest run in theatre history up to that time (after 146 performances of Rober Cambert's "Pomone" in 1671). The work became Gay's greatest success and has been played ever since; it has been called "the most popular play of the eighteenth century."[4] In 1920, The Beggar's Opera began an astonishing revival run of 1,463 performances at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, London, which was one of the longest runs in history for any piece of musical theatre at that time. Peachum, a fence and thief-catcher, justifies his actions. Mrs. Peachum, overhearing her husband's blacklisting of unproductive thieves, protests regarding one of them, Bob Booty (the nickname of Robert Walpole). The Peachums discover that Polly, their daughter, has secretly married Macheath, the famous highwayman, who is Peachum's principal client. Upset to find out that he will no longer be able to use Polly in his business, Peachum and his wife ask how Polly will support such a husband "in Gaming, Drinking and Whoring." Nevertheless, they conclude that the match may make sense if the husband can be killed for his money. They leave to carry out this errand. However, Polly has hidden Macheath. Macheath goes to a tavern where he is surrounded by women of dubious virtue who, despite their class, compete in displaying perfect drawing-room manners, although the subject of their conversation is their success in picking pockets and shoplifting. Macheath discovers, too late, that two of them (Jenny Diver, Suky Tawdry) have contracted with Peachum to capture him, and he becomes a prisoner in Newgate prison. The prison is run by Peachum's associate, the corrupt jailer Lockit. His daughter, Lucy Lockit, has the opportunity to scold Macheath for having agreed to marry her and then broken this promise. She tells him that to see him tortured would give her pleasure. Macheath pacifies her, but Polly arrives and claims him as her husband. Macheath tells Lucy that Polly is crazy. Lucy helps Macheath to escape by stealing her father's keys. Her father learns of Macheath's promise to marry her and worries that if Macheath is recaptured and hanged, his fortune might be subject to Peachum's claims. Lockit and Peachum discover Macheath's hiding place. They decide to split his fortune.

John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, 1728-2004

Author : Uwe Böker
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042021136
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, 1728-2004 written by Uwe Böker and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Richard Steele remarked that the greatest Evils in human Society are such as no Law can come at, he was not able to forsee the spectacular success of John Gay's satire of society, the administration of law and crime, politics, the Italian opera and other topics. Gay's The Beggar's Opera, with its mixture of witty dialogue and popular songs, was imitated by 18th century writers, criticized by those on the seats of power, but remained a favourite of the English theatre public ever since. With N. Playfair's 1920 revival and B. Brecht's and K. Weill's 1928 Dreigroschenoper, Gay's play has been a starting-point for dramatists such as V. Havel (Zebrácká opera, 1975), W. Soyinka (Opera Wonyosi, 1977), Ch. Buarque (Ópera do Malandro, 1978), D. Fo (L'opera dello sghignazzo, 1981), A. Ayckbourn (A Chorus of Disapproval, 1984), as well as others such as Latouche, Hacks, Fassbinder, Dear, Wasserman, and Lepage. Apart from contributions by international scholars analysing the above-named plays, the editors' introduction covers other dramatists that have payed hommage to Gay. This interdisciplinary collection of essays is of particular interest for scholars working in the field of drama/theatre studies, the eighteenth century, contemporary drama, postcolonial studies, and politics and the stage.

Trivia

Author : John Gay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Trivia written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1716 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Beggar's Opera. A Comic Opera, Etc

Author : John Gay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beggar's Opera. A Comic Opera, Etc written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John Gay

Author : Peter Elfed Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book John Gay written by Peter Elfed Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gay's the Beggar's Opera

Author : John Christopher Pepusch
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022185579
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Gay's the Beggar's Opera written by John Christopher Pepusch and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First performed in 1728, 'The Beggar's Opera' is a satirical musical comedy that takes aim at the political corruption of its time. Featuring memorable characters and catchy songs, this play remains a popular choice for theatergoers today. This edition includes the original libretto by John Gay as well as a history of the play's production and reception. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.