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21. Trivia or. The art of walking the streets of London. By John Gay by Gay. John. 1685-1732. | |
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(1922-01-01)
Asin: B002WUBFAA Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
22. Fables of Mr. John Gay ; by John, 1685-1732 Gay | |
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(2009-10-26)
Asin: B003O5KVEI Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
23. The beggar 's opera written by Mr. Gay. by Gay. John. 1685-1732. | |
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(1920-01-01)
Asin: B002UPKQRK Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
24. LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN GAY (1685-1732) by John Gay | |
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(1921-01-01)
Asin: B002J4G1OY Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
25. Life and Letters of John Gay, 1685-1732 (1921) by Lewis Melville | |
Hardcover:
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Asin: B001K0TROY Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
26. Polly, an opera : being the sequel to The Beggar's Opera now freely adapted by Clifford Bax by John, 1685-1732 Gay | |
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(2009-10-26)
Asin: B003O6U3V8 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
27. Selected Poems: John Gay (Fyfield Books) by John Gay | |
Paperback: 96
Pages
(2006-07-01)
list price: US$11.95 -- used & new: US$5.38 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 1857547020 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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28. John Gay: A Profession of Friendship by David Nokes | |
Hardcover: 592
Pages
(1995-04-13)
list price: US$74.00 Isbn: 0198129718 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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29. Beggar's Opera by John Gay, William-Alan Landes | |
Paperback: 60
Pages
(1995-05)
list price: US$8.00 -- used & new: US$8.00 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0887342833 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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The Birth of Mack the Knife best read in this Regents Restoration Drama edition
All professions be rogue one another
Birth of the Modern Musical - John Gay's GeniusOverwhelms Italian Opera
A delicious romp Since Italian opera had first come to London in 1705, it had dominated theBritish stage. Replete with ornate sets, elaborate costumes, unintelligibleplots and imported sopranos and castrati, it was less art than event. Audiencesattended to share in the spectacle, as chariots swooped through the air &romantic tales unfolded on stage. Into this artificial world, Gay unleashed an opera about the scum of Londonsociety, set in taverns and thieves' dens. He tells the story of Peachum, afence with a lucrative sideline in informing on fellow criminals. His daughterPolly has secretly married MacHeath, a highwayman. Now Peachum and his "wife"fear that MacHeath will inform on them & inherit their loot when they arehanged. After berating Polly for marrying, & not having sense enough to liveout of wedlock, they decide to turn MacHeath in, before he can turn them in. AsPeachum prepares his daughter for this turn of events he tells her: "Thecomfortable estate of widowhood, is the only hope that keeps up a wife'sspirits. Where is the woman who would scruple to be a wife, if she had it inher power to be a widow whenever she pleased?" However, to the Peachum'sdisgust, Polly is actually in love with MacHeath and so, to her great surprise,are several other women, including Lucy Lockit who helps him to escape fromprison. So, the stage is set for a madcap farce. Mix in a satiric look at the corrupt administration of justice, some politicaljabs at the political master of the day, Sir Robert Walpole and songs like thefollowing: A fox may steal your hens, sirA whore your health and pence, sir,Your daughter rob your chest, sirYour wife may steal your rest, sir,A thief your goods and plate.But this is all but picking,With rest, pence, chest and chicken;It ever was decreed, sir,If lawyer's hand is fee'd, sir,He steals your whole estate. and you've got Gay's recipe for what quickly became the most popular play of the18th Century, fathering myriad imitations including Brecht's Threepenny Opera.A delicious romp. GRADE: A
Crime, Love and the Opera |
30. John Gay and the London Theatre by Calhoun Winton | |
Hardcover: 232
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(1993-04-29)
list price: US$35.00 -- used & new: US$32.95 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0813118328 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description " The Beggar's Opera, often referred to today as the first musical comedy, was the most popular dramatic piece of the eighteenth century -- and is the work that John Gay (1685-1732) is best remembered for having written. That association of popular music and satiric lyrics has proved to be continuingly attractive, and variations on the Opera have flourished in this century: by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, by Duke Ellington, and most recently by Vaclav Havel. The original opera itself is played all over the world in amateur and professional productions. But John Gay's place in all this has not been well defined. His Opera is often regarded as some sort of chance event. In John Gay and the London Theatre, the first book-length study of John Gay as dramatic author, Calhoun Winton recognized the Opera as part of an entirely self-conscious career in the theatre, a career that Gay pursued from his earliest days as a writer in London and continued to follow to his death. Winton emphasizes Gay's knowledge of and affection for music, acquired, he argues, by way of his association with Handel. Although concentrating on Gay and his theatrical career, Winton also limns a vivid portrait of London itself and of the London stage of Gay's time, a period of considerable turbulence both within and outside the theatre. Gay's plays reflect in varying ways and degrees that social, political, and cultural turmoil. Winton's study sheds new light not only on Gay and the theatre, but also on the politics and culture of his era. |
31. Deep Play: John Gay and the Invention of Modernity by Dianne Dugaw | |
Hardcover: 322
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(2001-01)
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32. Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London: John Gay's Trivia | |
Hardcover: 272
Pages
(2007-09-06)
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33. John Gay's 'The Beggar s Opera' 1728-2004: Adaptations and Re-Writings (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ... Und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft) by Uwe Böker; Ines Detmers; Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos (Eds.) | |
Hardcover: 347
Pages
(2006-10-31)
list price: US$91.00 -- used & new: US$91.00 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 9042021136 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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34. John Gay's the Beggar's Opera (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) by Harold Bloom | |
Library Binding: 143
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(1988-07)
list price: US$24.95 Isbn: 0877544190 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
35. John Gay and the Scriblerians (Critical Studies Series) by Peter Lewis, Nigel Wood | |
Hardcover: 224
Pages
(1988-11)
list price: US$39.95 Isbn: 0312024223 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
36. The Beggar's Opera (Contexts Series, No. 1) by J. V. Guerinot | |
Hardcover: 199
Pages
(1976-06)
list price: US$25.00 -- used & new: US$7.95 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0208014888 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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