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Music · 1728 · English

The Beggar's Opera

by John Gay

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John Gay’s ballad opera follows the highwayman Macheath, the Peachum household and the people around Newgate prison. Songs and dialogue connect courtship, criminal enterprise and competing loyalties in eighteenth-century London.

Author
John Gay
First published
1728
Category
Music
Language
English

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