The Beggar's Opera and Polly

ISBN: 9780199642229 出版年：2013 页码：257 Gay, John Oxford University Press

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.