Author: Frank KidsonPublisher: Cambridge : The University Press
ISBN:
Category : Ballad opera
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Beggar's Opera
Author: Frank KidsonPublisher: Cambridge : The University Press
ISBN:
Category : Ballad opera
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The beggar's opera
Author: The Beggar's Opera
Author: John GayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The Beggar's Opera
Author: Frank KidsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107429072
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Originally published in 1922, this book contains a history of English opera described through the lens of The Beggar's Opera, first performed in 1728. Kidson details the background to the opera's creation, its author, and its lasting impact on the English opera scene. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the English opera and English musical history.
The Beggar's Opera
Author: John GayPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336843148X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
The Beggar's Opera
Author: John Christopher PepuschPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballad operas
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Beggar's Opera
Author: Publisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN: 9780874400717
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Beggar's Opera and Polly
Author: John GayPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191645761
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
'Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives.' 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 sensation. Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum have become famous well beyond the confines of Gay's original play, and in its sequel, Polly, banned in Gay's lifetime, their adventures continue in the West Indies. With a cross-dressing heroine and a cast of female adventurers, pirates, Indian princes, rebel slaves, and rapacious landowners, Polly lays bare a culture in which all human relationships are reduced to commercial transactions. Raucous, lyrical, witty, ironic and tragic by turns, The Beggar's Opera and Polly - published together here for the first time - offer a scathing and ebullient portrait of a society in which statesmen and outlaws, colonialists and pirates, are impossible to tell apart. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The Beggar's Opera and Polly
Author: John GayPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199642222
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In this work, John Gay turned the 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 then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole.
Gay's Beggar's Opera
Author: William Eben SchultzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballad opera
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description