The Beggar's Opera Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Beggar's Opera Book

A receiver of stolen goods informs on his chief supplier, setting in motion an increasingly absurd turn of events that climaxes in a parody of 18th-century England’s passion for sentimental tragedy. In addition to its burlesque of the then-current vogue for Italian operatic styles, this satirical 1728 play ridicules a broad spectrum of political figures and social conventions, depicting crime and vice at every level of society. Influential prototype for Threepenny Opera.Read More

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  • 0486408884
  • 9780486408880
  • John Gay
  • 1 February 2000
  • Dover Publications Inc.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 64
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