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| #455677 in Books | Oxford University Press | 2013-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.10 x.70 x7.70l,.40 | File type: PDF | 256 pages | ||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| The birth of the comic opera|By P. McCauley|These plays offer up a bold mixture of political satire, lyrical poetry, social issues, family values, colonialism, gender roles and racial discrimination; with a number of popular folk tunes and ballads interspersed throughout. It's no wonder that 'The Beggar's Opera' ended up creating its own genre: the comic opera.
'The|About the Author||Hal Gladfelder is the author of Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England: Beyond the Law (Johns Hopkins, 2001) and an edition of Cleland's Memoirs of a Coxcomb (Broadview, 2005). His most recen
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