The Beggar's Opera (Penguin Classics)

The Beggar's Opera

by John Gay

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Notes

  1. ^ Article about long runs in the theatre in London and New York, Stage Beauty website
  2. ^ a b Musicals Guided Tour - First Musicals, PeoplePlay UK
  3. ^ Article about the length of theatrical runs around the world, World Theatres
  4. ^ a b Dobin's Beggars Opera website
  5. ^ Kozinn, Allan. "The Beggar's Opera, An 18th-Century Satire", The New York Times, 10 May 1990, accessed 6 November, 2009
  6. ^ Traubner, Richard. Operetta: A Theatrical History, p. 11
  7. ^ "Baroque Composers", Baroque Arts
  8. ^ a b Dobin, Jonathan. Jonathan Dobin's The Beggar's Opera website, accessed 6 November 2009
  9. ^ 1948 Benjamin Britten version of The Beggar's Opera at the Guide to Musical Theatre
  10. ^ [1]
  11. ^ Takarazuka Revue
  12. ^ [2]
  13. ^ His dark song of self-justification is the only song that appears in both The Beggar's Opera and The Threepenny Opera (as Morgenchoral des Peachum)
  14. ^ O'Shaughnessy, Toni-Lynn. "A Single Capacity in The Beggar's Opera", Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Winter, 1987-1988), pp. 212-227 The Johns Hopkins University Press (online version requires subscription)

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