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The Beggar's Opera: To Which is Added The Music to Each Song
de Gay, John
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Near Fine
- Librería
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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Sobre este artículo
NY: The Heritage Press, 1937. Textblock is very clean and tight; All edges red. Illustrated covers, minor bump on front top corner. Worn, distressed slip case cover, with some stains and soiling; 113pp.. Reprint. Cloth. Near Fine. Illus. by Mariette Lydis. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.
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
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- SB13072
- Título
- The Beggar's Opera: To Which is Added The Music to Each Song
- Autor
- Gay, John
- Ilustrador
- Mariette Lydis
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Edición
- Reprint
- Editorial
- The Heritage Press
- Lugar de publicación
- NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1937
- Palabras clave
- Beggar's Opera, Music, Opera, Singing
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Music;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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Sobre el vendedor
Clausen Books, RMABA
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
Sobre Clausen Books, RMABA
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- Reprint
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...
- 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...
