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 The Beggar's Opera Information
2,520 words, approx. 8 pages
 The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera, a satiric play using some of the conventions of opera, but without the recitative. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama. The lyrics of the airs in the play are set to popular broadsheet ballads, opera... 
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 Evening Standard - London opera
07/22/2004: 345 words, approx. 1 pages Birmingham Opera Company Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, SW7 (020-7589 8212). CURLEW RIVER Britten. Cond: Kurt Masur, with the Birmingham Opera Company. Wed 28 Jul, 10pm, Pounds 9-Pounds 12.50 Britten's church parable receives Graham Vick's intheround, walkabout treatment. Opera Holland... summary from source:
The Washington Post Opera
03/13/1988: 1,829 words, approx. 6 pages The Washington Opera is at a crossroads, and this week as it concludes one season and announces the next, the fact is particularly evident. The diverging paths from which it must choose are symbolized by the two theaters where it performs. One is...
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 Critical Essay by Phoebe Fenwick Gaye
12,790 words, approx. 43 pages
In the following excerpt, Fenwick Gaye focuses on the years 1727 and 1728, when Gay wrote and then premiered The Beggar's Opera. She pays particular attention to Gay's influential relationships with fellow Scriblerians Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, and to Gay's difficult relationship with the English court and government, including Prime Minister Robert Walpole.
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Critical Essay by Howard Erskine-Hill
10,668 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following essay, Erskine-Hill considers the whole of Gay's dramatic corpus to illuminate Gay's experimentalism and the development of his most famous work, The Beggar's Opera. Erskine-Hill focuses on Gay's tendency to mix and subvert familiar generic forms to create entirely new types of theatre.
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Critical Essay by Calhoun Winton
9,325 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following excerpts, Winton examines the history of the writing and reception of The Beggar's Opera, focusing on Gay's close relationships with Pope and Swift. Winton suggests that Gay's innovative use of both classical works and English popular ballads created a uniquely English genre from the then-popular Italian opera.
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