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BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN GAY
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The Beggar’s Opera, a ballad opera three acts by John Gay, performed at Lln’s Inn Fields Theatre, London, 1728 and published the same year.
THE BEGGAR'S OPERA BY JOHN GAY
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BROWSE: GAY - THE BEGGAR'S OPERA
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill based their ballad opera Die Dreigroschenoper (1928; The Threepenny Opera) on Gay’s work.