The Beggar'S Opera And Polly

With The Beggar's Opera (1728), Gay invented the ballad opera. It is here published for the first time with its sequel, Polly, in which Macheath and Polly Peachum are transplanted to the West Indies. Together the plays offer a scathing and ebullient portrait of a society in which statesmen and outlaws are impossible to tell apart.

• | By (Author): John Gay
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: May 09, 2013
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0199642222
• | ISBN-13: 9780199642229