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John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, 1728-2004 : adaptations and re-writings

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'
eBook, German, 2006
Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2006
Adaptations
1 online resource (347 pages)
9789042021136, 9781429481366, 9042021136, 1429481366
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Calendar of Important Adaptations and Re-Writings 1920–2004Uwe BÖKER, Ines DETMERS and Anna-Christina GIOVANOPOULOS: From Gay to Brecht and Beyond: Imitation and Re-Writing of The Beggar’s Opera – 1728 to 2004Uwe BÖKER: John Gays The Beggar’s Opera und die sozialhistorischen Kontexte: Satire, Kriminalität, Ballade, Oper, KommerzialisierungIan GALLAGHER: The Beggar’s Opera and its Criminal Law Context Horst HÖHNE: Die Fortsetzung der Beggar’s Opera: Polly (1728)Anna-Christina GIOVANOPOULOS: Robert Walpole und Jonathan Wild: Die satirischen Bezugspersonen von John Gays The Beggar’s OperaFrank ENGELMANN: A Late Eighteenth-Century Ballad Opera and John Wilkes: The Bow-Street Opera (1773)Klaus SCHUHMACHER: Ekstasen der Sachlichkeit: Zur Dreigroschenoper (1928) von Bertolt Brecht und Kurt Weill Uwe BÖKER: John Gays The Beggar’s Opera und Václav Havels Zebrácká opera (1975)Wumi RAJI: Opera Wonyosi (1977): Strategies of a Postcolonial Response to a Western Operatic DramaKathrin SARTINGEN: Rewriting als produktive Differenz: Chico Buarque de Hollandas Ópera do Malandro (1978) als brasilianische Wiederkehr von John Gays The Beggar’s OperaChristoph Oliver MAYER: Italiens Spaßmacher schlägt wieder zu: Dario Fos L’opera dello sghignazzo (1981) als provokatives Rewriting der BettleroperAnja MÜLLER: Alan Ayckbourn’s Beggar’s Opera as A Chorus of Disapproval (1984)Contributors
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
Texts in German (7) or English (5), with some quoted passages in Portuguese also translated into German
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