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With The Beggar's Opera (1728), Gay invented the ballad opera. It is here published for the first time with its sequel, Polly, in which Macheath and Polly Peachum are transplanted to the West Indies. Together the plays offer a scathing and ebullient portrait of a society in which statesmen and outlaws are impossible to tell apart.
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The Beggar's Opera and Polly, John Gay
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- 2013
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- Title
- The Beggar's Opera and Polly
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Gay
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publisher
- 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0199642222
- ISBN13
- 9780199642229
- Description
- With The Beggar's Opera (1728), Gay invented the ballad opera. It is here published for the first time with its sequel, Polly, in which Macheath and Polly Peachum are transplanted to the West Indies. Together the plays offer a scathing and ebullient portrait of a society in which statesmen and outlaws are impossible to tell apart.