The Beggar's Opera
de John Gay
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- VG+/N/a
- Librería
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Lutterworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Martin Secker, 1923. Green covers with black spine strip and white title patch. 82pp with four pages of adverts. Rough-cut lower edges and black top edges. Endpapers yellowing and only the most modest signs of use, otherwise a very attractive, tight, clean copy. Ref:07975. Reprint. Paper-Covered Boards. VG+/N/a. 15cmx21cm.
Sinopsis
‘Whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another' The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows, became the theatrical sensation of the eighteenth century. In The Beggar’s Opera , John Gay turned conventions of Italian opera riotously upside-down, instead using traditional popular ballads and street tunes, while also indulging in political satire at the expense of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole. Gay’s highly original depiction of the thieves, informers, prostitutes and highwaymen thronging the slums and prisons of the corrupt London underworld proved brilliantly successful in exposing the dark side of a corrupt and jaded society. Bryan Loughrey and T. O. Treadwell’s introduction examines the eighteenth-century background of musical theatre and opera, the changing cityscape of London and the corruption of the legal system. This edition also includes a note on the music in The Beggar’s Opera and suggestions for further reading.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Church Street Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 000975
- Título
- The Beggar's Opera
- Autor
- John Gay
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VG+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- N/a
- Edición
- Reprint
- Editorial
- Martin Secker
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1923
- Size
- 15cmx21cm
Términos de venta
Church Street Books
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Sobre el vendedor
Church Street Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2007
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
Sobre Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and antiquarian
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
