The Beggar’s Opera
Автор:
John GayЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2026-08-05Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
20
Description
Peachum’s racket—running a gang of thieves who prey on London’s well-to-do—is paying great dividends, but what wasn’t in his plans was his daughter secretly marrying his most profitable rogue, the highwayman Captain Macheath. The best way out of the situation seems to be to collaborate with Lockit, the corrupt jailer of Newgate prison, to see Macheath hung for his crimes—but it turns out that it’s not just Polly whom Macheath has been having a dalliance with.
The Beggar’s Opera was written as a satire of the fashionable Italian operas of the time, riffing on the same form but moving the setting from the upper-class sphere to something decidedly more down-to-earth. The music,...
