The Beggar's Opera Author:John Gay, Bryan Loughrey (Editor), T. O. Treadwell (Editor) 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 pol... more »itical figures and social conventions, depicting crime and vice at every level of society. Influential prototype for Threepenny Opera.« less
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