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title: "The Beggar's Opera and Polly (Oxford World's Classics)"
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# The Beggar's Opera and Polly (Oxford World's Classics)

**Brand:** john gayhal gladfelder
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## Customer Reviews

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    The birth of the comic opera
  

*by P***Y on Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2013*

These plays offer up a bold mixture of political satire, lyrical poetry, social issues, family values, colonialism, gender roles and racial discrimination; with a number of popular folk tunes and ballads interspersed throughout. It's no wonder that 'The Beggar's Opera' ended up creating its own genre: the comic opera.'The Beggar's Opera' takes place in London's underworld, following thieves and prostitutes, as the local fence and informant Peachum attempts to have his new son-in-law (the highwayman Macheath) hanged. Macheath repeatedly seduces women to help him evade capture and escape, but is constantly betrayed at each turn by his fellow criminals. In the end the Beggar (the playwright) has to be asked to come out and save his hero, so as to give the audience a happy ending.The sequel 'Polly' takes place in the West Indies, as Polly Peachum attempts to find her now transported husband Macheath in the middle of a revolt. This play was in fact banned by the Lord Chamberlain before it was ever performed. It survived in published form and was not performed on the stage until over forty years after Gay's death.While these plays are enjoyable enough to read and study as a text, they were definitely written to be enjoyed as a performance.

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    A Classic
  

*by G***D on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 4, 2020*

Written a long time ago, so the language will, from time to time, seem a little 'off', but it is a trend setter and later became The Threepenny Opera by Brecht

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    Beggars can be Choosers
  

*by C***T on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2015*

Clear text of a classic,  a glimpse into a marker point in English literature and culture

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