The Beggar's Opera and Polly

Author/Contributor(s):	Gay, John
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	05/08/2013
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

With The Beggar's Opera (1728), Gay invented the ballad opera. It is here published for the first time with its sequel, Polly, in which Macheath and Polly Peachum are transplanted to the West Indies. Together the plays offer a scathing and ebullient portrait of a society in which statesmen and outlaws are impossible to tell apart.