The Beggar's Opera.
The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay. 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. Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Floating Press,
1753.
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| Summary: | The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay. 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. Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the conventions of opera, but without recitative. The lyrics of the airs in the piece are set to popular broadsheet ballads, opera arias, church hymns and folk tunes of the time. The Beggar's Opera premiered at Lincoln's Inn Fields on 28 January 1728 and ran for 62 consecutive performances, which was the lo. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (103 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781598758276 1598758276 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |