[PDF.11uq] The Beggar's Opera and Polly (Oxford World's Classics)

The Beggar's Opera and Polly (Oxford World's Classics)

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| The birth of the comic opera|By P. McCauley|These plays offer up a bold mixture of political satire, lyrical poetry, social issues, family values, colonialism, gender roles and racial discrimination; with a number of popular folk tunes and ballads interspersed throughout. It's no wonder that 'The Beggar's Opera' ended up creating its own genre: the comic opera.

'The|About the Author||Hal Gladfelder is the author of Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England: Beyond the Law (Johns Hopkins, 2001) and an edition of Cleland's Memoirs of a Coxcomb (Broadview, 2005). His most recen

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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 se...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Beggar's Opera and Polly (Oxford World's Classics)   |  John Gay. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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