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The beggar's opera : and Polly /

By: Gay, John, 1685-1732 [author.].
Contributor(s): Gladfelder, Hal [editor.].
Series: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press): Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013Description: xlvii, 207 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780199642229; 9780199642229; 0199642222.Other title: Polly.Subject(s): English drama -- 18th century | English drama | English drama (Comedy)DDC classification: 822.5 GAY
Contents:
Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of John Gay -- The beggar's opera -- Polly -- Appendix: the sources of Gay's airs -- Explanatory notes.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages xli-xliv).

Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of John Gay -- The beggar's opera -- Polly -- Appendix: the sources of Gay's airs -- Explanatory notes.

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.

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