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The Beggar's Opera and Polly by John Gay, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From John Gay

Current price: $13.50
The Beggar's Opera and Polly by John Gay, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
The Beggar's Opera and Polly by John Gay, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

The Beggar's Opera and Polly by John Gay, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From John Gay

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Size: 25.4 x 196 x 170

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'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 urbanunderworld 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 anda 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. | The Beggar's Opera and Polly by John Gay, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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