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John Gay and the London theatre
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ISBN: 0813118328 132259760X 0813159369 0813185335 9780813159362 9780813118321 9780813185330 Year: 1993 Publisher: Lexington, Ky The University Press of Kentucky

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The Beggar's Opera, often referred to today as the first musical comedy, was the most popular dramatic piece of the eighteenth century -- and is the work that John Gay (1685-1732) is best remembered for having written. That association of popular music and satiric lyrics has proved to be continuingly attractive, and variations on the Opera have flourished in this century: by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, by Duke Ellington, and most recently by Vaclav Havel. The original opera itself is played all over the world in amateur and professional productions.But John Gay's place in all this has not

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