The Beggar's Opera and Polly: Together With the Airs of the Music from the Original Editions of 1728 and 1729 by John Gay (LP314)

Published 1923: Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original red and beige two-tone cloth with titles on the cover and spine. Circa 200 very clean and bright pages. Boards slightly rubbed and faded with time and bumped on the corners consistent with age but remain firm and intact. (LP314)

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‘Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives.’

With The Beggar's Opera, John Gay created one of the most enduringly popular works in English theatre history, and invented a new dramatic form, the ballad opera. Gay's daring mixture of caustic political satire, well-loved popular tunes, and a story of crime and betrayal set in the urban underworld of prostitutes and thieves was an overnight sensation. And its sequel, Polly, banned in Gay's lifetime, boasted a cross-dressing heroine and a cast of female adventurers, pirates, Indian princes, rebel slaves, and rapacious landowners--a culture in which all human relationships are reduced to commercial transactions.

John Gay was an English poet and dramatist. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.

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