The Beggar's Opera

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Author:

Gay, John

ISBN:

978-1-4192-5385-0

Publication Date:

Jun 2004

Publisher:

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

USD $1.99

Book Description:

NOTE: THIS IS a DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOK. MATT. We retrench the Superfluities of Mankind. the World is avaritious, and I hate Avarice. a covetous fellow, like a Jackdaw, steals what he was never made to enjoy, for the sake of hiding it. These are the Robbers of Mankind, for Money was made for the Free- hearted and Generous.

Book Details

Detailed Subjects:

Drama / General

Author Biography

Gay, John (Author)

Gay is a highly original poet and dramatist who experimented in various forms and genres. His The What D'Ye Call It: A Tragi-Comical Pastoral Farce (1715) is a burlesque of high seriousness, as is Three Hours after Marriage, which he wrote with his fellow members of the Scriblerus Club Alexander Pope and Dr. John Arbuthnot.

The Beggar's Opera (1728) is his best-known work; it started the vogue for ballad operas, with tunes drawn from popular airs (Gay's are mostly from Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy, a popular sourcebook for ribald songs). The Beggar's Opera satirizes gentility and vulgarity alike, and its topical political allusions are so direct that the government forbade its' sequel, Polly. Bertolt Brecht caught the spirit of the work in his Threepenny Opera.

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