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THE BEGGAR’S OPERA BY 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. In , Gay portrays the liv of a group of thiev and prostut 18th-century London.
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BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN GAY
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THE BEGGAR'S OPERA BY JOHN GAY
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