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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
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.
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill based their ballad opera Die Dreigroschenoper (1928; The Threepenny Opera) on Gay’s work.