The Beggar's Opera (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Gay, John

 
9780140432206: The Beggar's Opera (Penguin Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140432205 ISBN 13: 9780140432206
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1986

Inhaltsangabe

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 Walpole. Gay's highly original depiction of the thieves, informers, prostitutes and highwaymen thronging the slums and prisons of the corrupt London underworld proved brilliantly successful in exposing the dark side of a corrupt and jaded society.

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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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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1986
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140432205
ISBN 13 
9780140432206
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
128
Herausgeber
Loughrey Bryan
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