The Ballad Opera
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The Ballad Opera
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language : en
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Release Date : 1974
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Ballad Opera
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Author : Edmond McAdoo Gagey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Ballad Opera written by Edmond McAdoo Gagey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Beggar S Opera
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Author : John Gay
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-06-11
The Beggar S Opera written by John Gay and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-11 with categories.
The Beggar's Opera: A Ballad Opera in Three Acts by John Gay. The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today. Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the conventions of opera, but without recitative. The lyrics of the airs in the piece are set to popular broadsheet ballads, opera arias, church hymns and folk tunes of the time. The original idea of the opera came from Jonathan Swift, who wrote to Alexander Pope on 30 August 1716 asking "...what think you, of a Newgate pastoral among the thieves and whores there?" Their friend, Gay, decided that it would be a satire rather than a pastoral opera. For his original production in 1728, Gay intended all the songs to be sung without any accompaniment, adding to the shocking and gritty atmosphere of his conception.
The Contrivances
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Author : Henry Carey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1753
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The Ballad Opera
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language : en
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Release Date : 1974
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John Gay And The Ballad Opera The Beggar S Opera
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Author : Frank Granville Barker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
John Gay And The Ballad Opera The Beggar S Opera written by Frank Granville Barker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Beggar's opera categories.
The Ballad Opera
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Author : Walter H. Rubsamen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
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The Beggar S Wedding
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Author : Charles Coffey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1733
The Beggar S Wedding written by Charles Coffey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1733 with Operas categories.
An Index Of Tunes In The Ballad Operas
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Author : William Barclay Squire
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
An Index Of Tunes In The Ballad Operas written by William Barclay Squire and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with Ballad opera categories.
The Beggar S Opera And Polly
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Author : John Gay
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-05-09
The Beggar S Opera And Polly written by John Gay and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-09 with Drama categories.
'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.