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Beggar's Opera, The (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, LIMITED EDITION)

Beggar's Opera, The (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, LIMITED EDITION)

Beggar's Opera, The (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, LIMITED EDITION)

Beggar's Opera, The (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, LIMITED EDITION)

by Gay, John

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Paris: Limited Editions Club, 1937. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Mariette Lydis. SIGNED. 123 pages. Hardcover. Signed by illustrator on back page. #388 of limited editions (1500). Gilt top edge, title on spine (slightly faded), front and back cover boards. Cover boards bound in navy blue, embossed pattern. Deckled fore and bottom edges. Former owners book plates (2) on endpapers. Record # 30694

Synopsis

‘Whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another' The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows, became the theatrical sensation of the eighteenth century. In The Beggar’s Opera , John Gay turned conventions of Italian opera riotously upside-down, instead using traditional popular ballads and street tunes, while also indulging in political satire at the expense of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole. Gay’s highly original depiction of the thieves, informers, prostitutes and highwaymen thronging the slums and prisons of the corrupt London underworld proved brilliantly successful in exposing the dark side of a corrupt and jaded society. Bryan Loughrey and T. O. Treadwell’s introduction examines the eighteenth-century background of musical theatre and opera, the changing cityscape of London and the corruption of the legal system. This edition also includes a note on the music in The Beggar’s Opera and suggestions for further reading.

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Bookseller
Monroe Street Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
30694
Title
Beggar's Opera, The (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, LIMITED EDITION)
Author
Gay, John
Illustrator
Mariette Lydis
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
None
Edition
1st
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Place of Publication
Paris
Date Published
1937
Keywords
Theater, Plays, 1st, Mariette Lydis, SIGNED.

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