Beggar's Opera, The
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Beggar's Opera, The, a
ballad opera by J.
Gay, produced 1728.
The play arose out of
Swift's suggestion that a Newgate pastoral ‘might make an odd pretty sort of thing’. The principal characters are Peachum, a receiver of stolen goods, who also makes a living by informing against his clients; his wife and his daughter Polly; Lockit, warder of Newgate, and his daughter Lucy; and Captain Macheath, a gallant highwayman. Polly falls in love with Macheath, who marries her. Peachum, infuriated by her folly, informs against Macheath who is sent to Newgate. There he makes a conquest of Lucy, who, in spite of her jealousy towards Polly, secures Macheath's release. The play, which combines burlesque of Italian opera and political satire (notably of Sir R.
Walpole) with some of Gay's most brilliant songs and scenes of genuine pathos, was an unparalleled success, and is said to have brought Gay some £800. (It was said to have made Gay rich, and
Rich—the producer—gay.) A
Brecht-Weill version,
The Threepenny Opera, was first performed in 1928.
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