The Beggar's OperaEdgar V. Roberts U of Nebraska Press, 1 jan 1969 - 238 pagina's The Beggar's Opera introduced to theater the ballad-opera and an immortal cast of characters. The Peachums, employers of a company of pickpockets, shoplifters, and thieves, raised their daughter Polly for finer things, but she has done a dreadful deed. She has married for love. Her husband is Macheath, so exquisite a robber he might have been a lawyer or lord, and so devoted to matrimony that he has two or three wives already. |
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anon Bagshot Bailey ballad opera Beggar's Opera born brother BUDGE Captain Macheath charms cheat CHORUS Coaxer copy-text criminal dear Lucy Death DOLLY TRULL Drama drink Drury Lane Dryden's edition English Enter ev'ry Exeunt Exit eyes Fielding's Filch fond friends gang Gay's gentlemen give glass Grose guineas handsome hanged happy hath heart Henry Fielding Henry Purcell highwayman husband hussy Italian opera jailer JENNY DIVER John Christopher Pepusch John Gay Jonathan Swift Jonathan Wild kiss ladies Lavinia Fenton Lincoln's Inn Fields lips live LOCKIT London MACHEATH madam married Marybone MATT Miss Polly never Newgate Orig Oxford PEACHUM Pepusch play Polly's poor Pope prey prisoners published rogue satire scene Schultz SLAMMEKIN slut song steal strong waters SUKY TAWDRY sure Theatre thee thief Thomas D'Urfey Thornbury thou tol de rol TRAPES tunes TWITCHER Tyburn Walpole wench wife woman women