The Beggar S Opera

Author : John Gay
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
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Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191645761

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The Beggar's Opera and Polly by John Gay Pdf

'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.

Author : Peggy Blair
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143183433

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The first volume in the atmospheric and suspenseful Inspector Ramirez series In beautiful, crumbling Old Havana, Canadian detective Mike Ellis hopes the sun and sand will help save his troubled marriage. He doesn’t yet know that it’s dead in the water—much like the little Cuban boy last seen begging the Canadian couple for a few pesos on the world famous Malecon. For Inspector Ricardo Ramirez, head of the Major Crimes Unit of the Cuban National Revolutionary Police, finding his prime suspect isn’t a problem—Cuban law is. He has only seventy-two hours to secure an indictment and prevent a vicious killer from leaving the island. But Ramirez also has his own troubles to worry about. He’s dying of the same dementia that killed his grandmother, an incurable disease that makes him see the ghosts of victims of unsolved murders. As he races against time, the dead haunt his every step...

Author : John Gay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1760
Category : Ballad operas
ISBN : OXFORD:503827677

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The Beggar's Opera, by John Gay Pdf

Author : John Gay,John Christopher Pepusch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1742
Category : Ballad operas
ISBN : WISC:89006632913

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The Beggar's Opera by John Gay,John Christopher Pepusch Pdf

Author : Peggy Janice Blair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Cuba
ISBN : 1846972345

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Midnight in Havana by Peggy Janice Blair Pdf

Inspector Ricardo Ramirez investigates the murder of a street boy in Havana.

Author : John Gay,John Christopher Pepusch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017607768

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The Beggar's Opera by John Gay,John Christopher Pepusch Pdf

Den fuldstændige libretto og musikken til alle sangene (for klaver med underlagte tekster), arrangeret af J.C. Pepusch

Author : John Gay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036529415

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The Beggar's Opera by John Gay Pdf

Author : John Gay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1729
Category : Ballad operas
ISBN : BL:A0018084358

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The Second Part of The Beggar's Opera by John Gay Pdf

Author : Yvonne Noble
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Beggar's opera
ISBN : UOM:39015010480229

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Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Beggar's Opera by Yvonne Noble Pdf

In this tale from the Amhara people of Ethiopia, a patient woman uses her experience with a wild lion to win the love of her new stepson.

Author : John Gay
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1522995234

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The Beggar's Opera by John Gay Pdf

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.

Author : William Eben Schultz
Publisher : New York : Russell & Russell
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015009636427

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Gay's Beggar's Opera by William Eben Schultz Pdf

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.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Chelsea House
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015014330537

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John Gay's The Beggar's Opera by Harold Bloom Pdf

Author : John Gay
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191645761

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The Beggar's Opera and Polly by John Gay Pdf

'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.

Author : Frank Kidson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107429079

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The Beggar's Opera by Frank Kidson Pdf

Originally published in 1922, this book contains a history of English opera described through the lens of The Beggar's Opera, first performed in 1728. Kidson details the background to the opera's creation, its author, and its lasting impact on the English opera scene. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the English opera and English musical history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Ballad operas
ISBN : OCLC:1113945877

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