John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, 1728-2004: adaptations and re-writingsUwe Böker, Ines Detmers, Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos Rodopi, 2006 - 347 páginas When Richard Steele remarked that the greatest Evils in human Society are such as no Law can come at, he was not able to forsee the spectacular success of John Gay's satire of society, the administration of law and crime, politics, the Italian opera and other topics. Gay's The Beggar's Opera, with its mixture of witty dialogue and popular songs, was imitated by 18th century writers, criticized by those on the seats of power, but remained a favourite of the English theatre public ever since. With N. Playfair's 1920 revival and B. Brecht's and K. Weill's 1928 Dreigroschenoper, Gay's play has been a starting-point for dramatists such as V. Havel (Zebrácká opera, 1975), W. Soyinka (Opera Wonyosi, 1977), Ch. Buarque (Ópera do Malandro, 1978), D. Fo (L'opera dello sghignazzo, 1981), A. Ayckbourn (A Chorus of Disapproval, 1984), as well as others such as Latouche, Hacks, Fassbinder, Dear, Wasserman, and Lepage. Apart from contributions by international scholars analysing the above-named plays, the editors' introduction covers other dramatists that have payed hommage to Gay. This interdisciplinary collection of essays is of particular interest for scholars working in the field of drama/theatre studies, the eighteenth century, contemporary drama, postcolonial studies, and politics and the stage. |
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... Political Satire When in 1727 the dramatist and poet John Gay, encouraged by his Scriblerian friends Swift and Pope, tried to find a producer for The Beggar's Opera, the manager of the Drury Lane Theatre was reluctant to put on this new ...
... Political Satire When in 1727 the dramatist and poet John Gay, encouraged by his Scriblerian friends Swift and Pope, tried to find a producer for The Beggar's Opera, the manager of the Drury Lane Theatre was reluctant to put on this new ...
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... politics . ' 16 12 The Covent - Garden Journal by Alexander Drawcansir [ Henry Fielding ] . Gerard Edward Jensen ( ed . ) . New York : Yale University Press 1964 , I , 138 . 13 Frank Kidson , The Beggar's Opera . Its Predecessors and ...
... politics . ' 16 12 The Covent - Garden Journal by Alexander Drawcansir [ Henry Fielding ] . Gerard Edward Jensen ( ed . ) . New York : Yale University Press 1964 , I , 138 . 13 Frank Kidson , The Beggar's Opera . Its Predecessors and ...
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... political conditions of their respective societies. 2. Re-Writings of Theatrical Texts Inspired by the theoretical tenets of post-history or post-modernism, literary critics have during the last two or three decades focused on the ...
... political conditions of their respective societies. 2. Re-Writings of Theatrical Texts Inspired by the theoretical tenets of post-history or post-modernism, literary critics have during the last two or three decades focused on the ...
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... political violence and the moral duty of the individual in the face of tyranny " " . " Others , like the Greek ... politics " or Trevor Nunn who drew parallels to Fascism , saw the need to point out contemporary parallels and different ...
... political violence and the moral duty of the individual in the face of tyranny " " . " Others , like the Greek ... politics " or Trevor Nunn who drew parallels to Fascism , saw the need to point out contemporary parallels and different ...
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... political , social and cultural parallels to the present in an oblique way . Their re- writings are , in the sense of Dr. Johnson , imitations " in which the ancients are familiarized by adapting their sentiments to modern topicks , by ...
... political , social and cultural parallels to the present in an oblique way . Their re- writings are , in the sense of Dr. Johnson , imitations " in which the ancients are familiarized by adapting their sentiments to modern topicks , by ...
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John Gay's The beggar's opera 1728 - 2004: 1728 - 2004 ; adaptations and re ... Uwe Böker Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, 1728-2004: adaptations and re-writings Uwe Böker,Ines Detmers,Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
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Página 49 - The labour of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Página 80 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Página 49 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Página 134 - That vice and folly ought to be attacked wherever they could be met with, and especially when they were placed in high and conspicuous stations of life.
Página 51 - IT is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.
Página 61 - Through the whole piece you may observe such a similitude of manners in high and low life, that it is difficult to determine whether (in the fashionable vices) the fine gentlemen imitate the gentlemen of the road, or the gentlemen of the road the fine gentlemen.- Had the Play remain'd, as I at first intended, it would have carried a most excellent moral.
Página 41 - I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is towards individuals; for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one and Judge Such-a-one; so with physicians — I will not speak of my own trade — soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Página 98 - Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpose, and is therefore not likely to do good; nor can it be conceived, without more speculation than life requires or admits, to be productive of much evil.
Página 44 - But general satire in times of general vice has no force and is no punishment : people have ceased to be ashamed of it when so many are joined with them ; and it is only by hunting one or two from the herd that any examples can be made.
Página 41 - I like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dispersions; but the chief end I propose to myself in all my labours, is to vex the world, rather than divert it ; and if I could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would be the most indefatigable writer you have ever seen, without reading.