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SHORT SUMMARY - THE BEGGAR'S OPERAJOHN GAY
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The Beggar's OperaJohn GayJohn GayFictn | Play | Adult | Published 1728Plot SummaryThe Beggar’s Opera, by John Gay, is a ballad opera. John Gay wrote The Beggar’s Opera 1728 alongsi Johann Christoph Pepch, who arranged the Beggar’s Opera was England’s longt-nng productn of s time, wh 62 performanc given nsecutively 1728. Gay wasn’t the first to dream up the ia of a ballad opera; he was spired by his iend Jonathan Swift (known for many works, cludg Gulliver’s Travels), who thought would be tertg to wre a pastoral about Newgate prison.
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