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The Beggar's Opera
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 »
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ISBN-13: 9780140432206
ISBN-10: 0140432205
Publication Date: 1/6/1987
Pages: 128
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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