The Beggar's Opera and Polly

by Hal Gladfelder and John Gay

Book Overview

"Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives."

Raucous, lyrical, witty, ironic and tragic by turns, The Beggar's Opera and Polly--published together here for the first time--offer a scathing and ebullient portrait of a society in which statesmen and outlaws, colonialists and pirates, are impossible to tell apart.

With The Beggar's Opera, John Gay created one...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199642222
• ISBN13: 9780199642229
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.6"