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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( G ) : Gay, John
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First played in 1728, "the Beggar's Opera" is a mock-pastoral ballad opera largely set in Newgate Prison. It is a mixture of political satire and travesty of fashionable Italian opera using old English and Scottish songs and airs. It is the story of Captain (Mac the Knife) Macheath, highwayman and carefree winner of woman's hearts, who conquers Polly, the daughter of Peachum, a fence who turns an honest penny by informing against his clients. Peachum is so enraged that he grasses on Macheath and has him committed to Newgate. here, Lucy,the daughter of the jailer falls in love with Macheath and there follows a spirited conflict between Polly and Lucy. In spite of her jealousy, Lucy procures the escape of Macheath and all live (more or less) happily ever after.
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Edited by C. F. Burgess, this edition of The Beggar's Opera for performance and study is well annotated and includes excerpts from Trivia: "Newgate's Garland", "An Epistle to a Lady," "The Hare and Many Friends"; the ballads "Twas When the Seas Were Roaring," "Sweet William's Farewell to the Black-ey'd Susan," "Molly Mog"; and letters to Jonathan Swift and others. Also included are an introduction, a list of the principal dates in the life of John Gay, as well as a selected bibliography.
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Orba. This over-zeal perhaps may give offence, The Prince is treated like no common slave. Phraortes strives to lessen his affliction, Nor would he add a sigh to his distresses: Astarbe too will talk to him whole hours With all the tender manners of her sex.
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Bart. I find you have the Use of your Reason when your Wife is not by; consider yourself as a Man, and consider her as a Woman, and you may have it then too.--You were born to Freedom, and would you seek to make yourself a Slave? You were born to Fortune, and would you stoop to make yourself a Beggar? For of all Beggars, I look upon a Minister's Follower to be the meanest.
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