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The Beggar's Opera - Regents Restoration Drama Series Series

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The Beggar's Opera - Regents Restoration Drama Series Series

by John Gay

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Edward Arnold, Australia, 1984. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 238 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Edward Arnold, Australia, 1984. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine is uncreased. . Cover is protected in clear, self-adhesive laminate. Edges of pages are mildly foxed. Pages are lightly tanned and moderately creased. Previous owner's name in ink. Cover has tanned on back. Underlining in pencil throughtout. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; ISBN: 0713154888. ISBN/EAN: 9780713154887. Inventory No: 20080008.. 9780713154887

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‘Whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another' The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows, became the theatrical sensation of the eighteenth century. In The Beggar’s Opera , John Gay turned 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 Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole. Gay’s highly original depiction of the thieves, informers, prostitutes and highwaymen thronging the slums and prisons of the corrupt London underworld proved brilliantly successful in exposing the dark side of a corrupt and jaded society. Bryan Loughrey and T. O. Treadwell’s introduction examines the eighteenth-century background of musical theatre and opera, the changing cityscape of London and the corruption of the legal system. This edition also includes a note on the music in The Beggar’s Opera and suggestions for further reading.

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Manyhills Books AU (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #
20080008
Title
The Beggar's Opera - Regents Restoration Drama Series Series
Author
John Gay
Format/Binding
Medium Trade Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
Reprint
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0713154888
ISBN 13
9780713154887
Publisher
Edward Arnold
Place of Publication
Australia
Date Published
1984
Keywords
BZDB5 Theatre & Plays; The Beggar's Opera - Regents Restoration Drama Series Series
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