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Item Details
Title:
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THE BEGGAR'S OPERA
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By: |
John Gay, Edgar V. Roberts (Editor) |
Format: |
Paperback |

List price:
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£16.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0803253613 |
ISBN 13: |
9780803253612 |
Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 April, 1969 |
Pages: |
238 |
Description: |
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. |
Synopsis: |
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. |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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