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BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN GAY
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 work b edy and polil satire prose terspersed wh songs set to ntemporary and tradnal English, Irish, Sttish, and * the beggars opera john gay *
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. Gay ritur the ernment, fashnable society, marriage, and Italian operatic style.
THE BEGGAR'S OPERA BY JOHN GAY
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