The Beggar's Opera

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1999 - 107 pagina's
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.
 

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ADIEU AMBORAH audience BEGGAR'S OPERA Ben Budge Betty Doxy Black Moll Bob Booty bottle Budge Captain Macheath CHEAT CHORUS coach Coaxer company of Beggars continue to sing courtyard Crook-Fingered Jack dance daughter DERRY DERRY DERRY DOLLY TRULL DRAWER dressed drinking father Filch FILL EVERY GLASS friends Gamesters Gang gentlemen give gold Griffith Jones hand hanged happy HARK Harry Padington hear heart husband hussy Jemmy Twitcher Jenny Diver JOHN CAIRD kiss KNOT THAT SACRED Ladies leave ledger look LOVE AND JOY LOVE HATH TIED Lucy's madam married MATT Miss Polly never Newgate prison Old Bailey OLD PLAYER opera passion Peachum and Lockit Polly and Lucy Polly's PRETTY prison punch bowl Royal Shakespeare Company SACRED LOVE HATH Slammekin slut song stage stagecoach STEAL Suky Tawdry sure tears thee thou turns TYBURN TREE villain VIXEN WAT DREARY wench wife WINE INSPIRES woman women

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Over de auteur (1999)

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.

Bibliografische gegevens

TitelThe Beggar's Opera
AuteursJohn Gay, John Caird, Ilona Sekacz
BijdragersJohn Caird, Ilona Sekacz
UitgeverDramatists Play Service, Inc., 1999
ISBN0822216744, 9780822216742
Lengte107 pagina's
  
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