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Beggar's Opera

English · Paperback

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Informationen zum Autor 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'. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung A depiction of the thieves, informers, prostitutes and highwaymen thronging the slums and prisons of the corrupt London underworld that exposes the dark side of a corrupt and jaded society.

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Authors John Gay, Gay J Loughrey B, Gay John, Bryan Loughrey, T. O. Treadwell, T.O. Treadwell
Assisted by Loughre (Editor), Loughrey (Editor), Bryan Loughrey (Editor), Loughrey Bryan (Editor), Treadwel (Editor), Treadwell (Editor), T O Treadwell (Editor), T. O. Treadwell (Editor), T.O. Treadwell (Editor), Bryan Loughrey (Introduction), Loughrey Bryan (Introduction), T. O. Treadwell (Introduction), T.O. Treadwell (Introduction), Treadwell T.O. (Introduction)
Publisher Penguin Books Uk
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 28.08.1986
 
EAN 9780140432206
ISBN 978-0-14-043220-6
No. of pages 128
Dimensions 128 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
Series Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

Satirical, MP expenses; corruption political satire; london underworld, Plays, playscripts, drama

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