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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...

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