Beggars Opera John Gay Published by Literature - Plays

Author: John Gay

Publisher: Literature - Plays

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The Beggar's Opera is one of the great success stories in the history of English stage. It was performed more often than any other play during the 18th century, fathering a host of imitations. As the editors comment: 'It has passed into the mythology of its age as the characters of Dickens were to do in the next.'

In it Gay wittily parodies the improbably Italian opera that then dominated the stage and indulges in colorful political satire, mainly at the expense of Sir Robert Walpole. But it was his daring use of setting and character--the rookeries and prisons of London thronged with rogues and whores like Macheath, Polly and Lucy--that captured his audience. It was a brilliantly successful device to expose the darker side of society that undercut the surface glitter of that most elegant age.

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