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The Beggar's Opera

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The Beggar's Opera introduced to theater the ballad-opera and an immortal cast of characters.

The Peachums, employers of a company of pickpockets, shoplifters, and thieves, raised their daughter Polly for finer things, but she has done a dreadful deed.

She has married for love. Her husband is Macheath, so exquisite a robber he might have been a lawyer or lord, and so devoted to matrimony that he has two or three wives already.

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University of Nebraska Press
0803253613 / 9780803253612
Paperback / softback
01/04/1969
United States
238 pages
140 x 203 mm, 295 grams