The Beggar's Opera introduced to theater the ballad-opera and an immortal cast of characters. The Peachums, employers of a company of pickpockets, shoplifters, and thieves, raised their daughter Polly for finer things, but she has done a dreadful deed. She has married for love.
Her husband is Macheath, so exquisite a robber he might have been a lawyer or lord, and so devoted to matrimony that he has two or three wives already.
| ISBN: | 9780803253612 |
| Publication date: | 1st April 1969 |
| Author: | John Gay |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 238 pages |
| Genres: |
Plays, playscripts |
The Beggar's Opera introduced to theater the ballad-opera and an immortal cast of characters. The Peachums, employers of a company of pickpockets, shoplifters, and thieves, raised their daughter Polly for finer things, but she has done a dreadful deed.
The Beggar's Opera features in the following genres: Plays, playscripts
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The Beggar's Opera was written by John Gay and published by University of Nebraska Press
The Beggar's Opera has 238 pages