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The Beggar's Opera and Polly

Author : John Gay
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191645753
Total Pages : 257 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 257 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 Beggars Opera and Polly, an Opera, Being the 2. Part of the Beggars Opera. London 1777

Author : John Gay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Beggars Opera and Polly, an Opera, Being the 2. Part of the Beggars Opera. London 1777 written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Second Part of The Beggar's Opera

Author : John Gay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Second Part of The Beggar's Opera written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1729 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Polly

Author : John Gay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Polly written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1729 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Polly: an Opera. Being the Second Part of the Beggars' Opera.

Author : John Gay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Polly: an Opera. Being the Second Part of the Beggars' Opera. written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 123 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:

Catalogue of the Very Choice Collection of Rare Books

Author : Frederick Startridge Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Very Choice Collection of Rare Books written by Frederick Startridge Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and Other Love Songs)

Author : Carl Grose
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783196556
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and Other Love Songs) written by Carl Grose and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kneehigh Theatre Company presents Dead Dog in a Suitcase written by Carl Grose. What the HELL is the world coming to? Based on The Beggar's Opera, John Gay's classic musical satire, Dead Dog in a suitcase (and other love songs) is busting with wit, wonder and weirdness. An extraordinary Kneehigh cast of actor-musicians shoot, hoot and shimmy their way through this twisted morality tale of our times...by turns SHOCKING, HILARIOUS, HEARTFELT and ABSURD! Mayor Goodman has been assassinated. Contract killer Macheath has just married Pretty Polly Peachum and they plan to escape to a better world – but they aren't going anywhere. Not if pickled pilchard, hair gel and concrete tycoon Les Peachum and his wife have anything to do with it. See, they aren't happy with their daughter marrying Macheath. Not one bit. Before the day is out Macheath will face the hangman's noose and much more besides. All the while, the dogs are howling, the pier is creaking, the babes are crying, the concrete is cracking and the truth won't stay hidden for much longer... This is now, this is it The world is poor and man's a shit The game is rigged, nothing's truer Death's a joke and life a sewer!

The Beggar's Opera

Author : John Gay
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822216742
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book The Beggar's Opera written by John Gay and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: John Gay's great comic masterpiece is generally agreed to be the first ever musical. Written in 1728, THE BEGGAR'S OPERA is a savagely funny satire on marriage, money and morals--as relevant and biting today as it was when first written.

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.

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:

Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera

Author : Stephen Hinton
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521338882
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera written by Stephen Hinton and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1990-07-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book on the best known of the Weill-Brecht collaborations which explores the extent and significance of the composer's contribution. After a detailed reconstruction of the work's genesis and continued revision over three decades, Stephen Hinton examines the spin-offs on which Weill and Brecht participated: the instrumental suite, the film, the lawsuit, the novel, and the musical and textual revisions of songs. In a survey of the stage history, Hinton pays particular attention to pioneering productions in Germany and Great Britain. Kim Kowalke provides an exhaustive account of the history of The Threepenny Opera in America, Geoffrey Abbott addresses questions concerning authentic performance practice, and David Drew analyses large-scale motivic relationships in the music. Among the earliest writings on the work reprinted here, those by Theodor W. Adorno, Ernst Bloch and Walter Benjamin appear for the first time in English translation. The book contains numerous illustrations, a discography, and music examples.

Polly

Author : John Gay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Polly written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1772 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Threepenny Novel

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : [London] : B. Hanison
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Threepenny Novel written by Bertolt Brecht and published by [London] : B. Hanison. This book was released on 1956 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brecht's only novel is, of course, based on his own Threepenny Opera, which was itself based on John Gay's The Beggar's Opera. Set in Victorian London, the novel feels similar to Dickens in many ways, but written with a very dry humour and none of the sentimentality. The plot mostly involves the extremely dodgy business dealings of the characters Peachum and Macheath, along with some equally dubious bankers and financiers - in fact it feels surprisingly relevant to current times! A satirical yet rather subtle attack on capitalist society, Brecht's vision here is of a world in which the poor and weak are continually exploited in the most casual fashion by the powerful and unscrupulous who always come out on top. It's very good writing but may be a little slow-going for some."--Goodreads

Weimar

Author :
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412818435
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Weimar written by and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974.

Polly

Author : John Gay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Polly written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1729 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber

Author : Colley Cibber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber written by Colley Cibber and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the best account of the theatre of his day and is an invaluable study of the art of acting as it was practiced by his contemporaries.