02814nam 2200589 450 991078738680332120200520144314.00-8131-8533-50-8131-5936-9(CKB)3710000000334061(EBL)1915213(SSID)ssj0001434415(PQKBManifestationID)11765215(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001434415(PQKBWorkID)11426358(PQKB)10585845(OCoLC)900344592(MdBmJHUP)muse44091(Au-PeEL)EBL1915213(CaPaEBR)ebr11007411(CaONFJC)MIL691042(MiAaPQ)EBC1915213(EXLCZ)99371000000033406120150128h19931993 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJohn Gay and the London theatre /Calhoun WintonLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,1993.©19931 online resource (232 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-59760-X 0-8131-1832-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Apprenticeship-A Prelude; 2. The Mohocks; 3. Chaucer in Augustan England; 4. Words and Music; 5. False Starts; 6. The Beggar and His Opera; 7. The Beggar's Opera in Theatre History; 8. The Opera as Work of Art; 9. Polly and the Censors; 10. Last Plays; Epilogue; Appendix A: ""Were the Mohocks Ever Anything More than a Hairstyle?""; Appendix B: Gay's Payment for the Opera; Reference Abbreviations; Notes; Index 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 notTheaterEnglandLondonHistory18th centuryBrigands and robbers in literatureTheaterHistoryBrigands and robbers in literature.822/.5Winton Calhoun677950MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787386803321John Gay and the London theatre3704687UNINA