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The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular…
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isn't threepenny opera by brecht based on gay's beggar's opera? what are some of the similarities and differences?


