The Beggar's Opera and Companion Pieces

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H. Davidson, 1985 - 112 pagina's
Edited by C. F. Burgess, this edition of The Beggar's Opera for performance and study is well annotated and includes excerpts from Trivia: "Newgate's Garland", "An Epistle to a Lady," "The Hare and Many Friends"; the ballads "Twas When the Seas Were Roaring," "Sweet William's Farewell to the Black-ey'd Susan," "Molly Mog"; and letters to Jonathan Swift and others. Also included are an introduction, a list of the principal dates in the life of John Gay, as well as a selected bibliography.

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From TRIVIA
74
SWEET WILLIAMS FAREWELL TO BLACKEYD
90
AN EPISTLE TO A LADY
96
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Over de auteur (1985)

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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