The beggar's opera

Author(s)

• Gay, John
• Roberts, Edgar V.
• Smith, Edward
• Pepusch, John Christopher

Bibliographic Information

The beggar's opera

John Gay ; edited by Edgar V. Roberts ; music edited by Edward Smith

（Regents Restoration drama series）

University of Nebraska Press, c1969

• : pbk.
• : hard

Uniform Title

Beggar's opera

Note

Ballad opera

Appendices (p. 84-238): A. The music of The beggar's opera, with keyboard accompaniments realized from the basses of John Christopher Pepusch by Edward Smith.--B. Chronology

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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Details

• NCID: BA19921000
• ISBN:
  • 0803253613
• LCCN: 68021878
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Lincoln
• Pages/Volumes: xxix, 238 p
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : ML50.7
  • DC : 782.1/2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ballad operas -- Librettos
  • LCSH : Ballad operas -- Vocal scores with piano
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA11013802