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The Beggar's Opera [1] is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today.
The Beggar’s Opera, a ballad opera in three acts by John Gay, performed at Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre, London, in 1728 and published in the same year. The work combines comedy and political satire in prose interspersed with songs set to contemporary and traditional English, Irish, Scottish, and.
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John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera follows a band of hard-drinking, double-crossing thieves, rogues, and sex workers in the criminal underworld of 1720s London.
- Introduction
- Act I. Scene I.
- Act II. Scene I.
If Poverty be a Title to Poetry, Iam sure no-body can dispute mine. I own myself of the Company ofBeggars; and I make one at their Weekly Festivals at St. Giles’s.I have a small Yearly Salary for my Catches, and am welcome to aDinner there whenever I please, which is more than most Poets cansay. Player.As we live by the Muses, it isbut Gratitude in...
Peachumsitting at a Table with a large Book of Accounts beforehim. MIDIPDF A Lawyer is an honest Employment, so is mine. Like me too he acts ina double Capacity, both against Rogues and for ’em; for ’tis but fittingthat we should protect and encourage Cheats, since we live by them. Enter Filch. Filch. Sir, Black Mollhathsent word her Trial comes on...
Jemmy Twitcher, Crook-finger’d Jack, WatDreary, Robin of Bagshot, Nimming Ned, HenryPaddington, Matt of the Mint, Ben Budge, and therest of the Gang, at the Table, with Wine, Brandy and Tobacco. Ben. But pr’ythee, Matt, whatis become of thy Brother Tom? I have not seen him since myReturn from Transportation. Matt. Poor Brother Tom had anAccident th...
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¨The Beggar's Opera¨ Ballad Opera by John Gay (1685-1732)Music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667-1752)29 January 172800:00 Introduction 01:57 Overtu...
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