The Beggar's Opera: Large Print
- ISBN-10
- 1698234384
- ISBN-13
- 9781698234380
- Series
- The Beggar's Opera
- Pages
- 106
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-10-08
- Author
- John Gay
Description
I recall being told once upon a time that the poet John Gay was an ancestor, and I formed an intention to read something of his. And then there was a reference to The Beggar's Opera and the Three Penny Opera in something I was reading on the kindle, which made it dead easy to download a copy to satisfy my curiosity.Meh. Satire doesn't hold up very well over time. Likely a production could be very winning, particularly if filmed by Tim Burton, but the script isn't much, nor terribly amusing. Still, good to fill in that bit of theater history, I suppose.
