The Beggar's Opera (Penguin Classics)

The Beggar's Opera (Penguin Classics)

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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.

The Beggar's Opera (Penguin Classics),John Gay,Bryan Loughrey,T. O. Treadwell,Penguin Classics,0140432205,Brigands and robbers,Drama,England,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,General,Literature: Classics,Plays / Drama,Drama texts: 16th to 18th centuries,Fiction / Literary

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