Download or read book Death at the Beggar s Opera written by Deryn Lake and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Rawlings, the apothecary with a talent for detective work, and John Fielding, the blind magistrate, make a welcome return in this evocative Georgian mystery. They are enjoying a performance of ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ in Drury Lane when the leading actor dramatically falls to his death on stage. As they begin the hunt for clues, they discover a hotbed of rivalry on and off the stage and a trail of obsession that leads to the dark heart of a cold-blooded murder.
Download or read book The Beggar s Opera written by Peggy Blair and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume in the atmospheric and suspenseful Inspector Ramirez series In beautiful, crumbling Old Havana, Canadian detective Mike Ellis hopes the sun and sand will help save his troubled marriage. He doesn’t yet know that it’s dead in the water—much like the little Cuban boy last seen begging the Canadian couple for a few pesos on the world famous Malecon. For Inspector Ricardo Ramirez, head of the Major Crimes Unit of the Cuban National Revolutionary Police, finding his prime suspect isn’t a problem—Cuban law is. He has only seventy-two hours to secure an indictment and prevent a vicious killer from leaving the island. But Ramirez also has his own troubles to worry about. He’s dying of the same dementia that killed his grandmother, an incurable disease that makes him see the ghosts of victims of unsolved murders. As he races against time, the dead haunt his every step...
Download or read book The Beggar s Opera written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1761 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Beggar s Opera and Polly written by John Gay and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives.' With The Beggar's Opera (1728), John Gay created one of the most enduringly popular works in English theatre history, and invented a new dramatic form, the ballad opera. Gay's daring mixture of caustic political satire, well-loved popular tunes, and a story of crime and betrayal set in the urban underworld of prostitutes and thieves was an overnight sensation. Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum have become famous well beyond the confines of Gay's original play, and in its sequel, Polly, banned in Gay's lifetime, their adventures continue in the West Indies. With a cross-dressing heroine and a cast of female adventurers, pirates, Indian princes, rebel slaves, and rapacious landowners, Polly lays bare a culture in which all human relationships are reduced to commercial transactions. Raucous, lyrical, witty, ironic and tragic by turns, The Beggar's Opera and Polly - published together here for the first time - offer a scathing and ebullient portrait of a society in which statesmen and outlaws, colonialists and pirates, are impossible to tell apart. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Download or read book The Beggar s Opera written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beggar s Opera written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Den fuldstændige libretto og musikken til alle sangene (for klaver med underlagte tekster), arrangeret af J.C. Pepusch
Download or read book The Beggar s Opera written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Beggar s Opera A Comic Opera Etc written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beggar s Opera written by Frank Kidson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1922, this book contains a history of English opera described through the lens of The Beggar's Opera, first performed in 1728. Kidson details the background to the opera's creation, its author, and its lasting impact on the English opera scene. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the English opera and English musical history.
Download or read book The Beggar s Opera written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beggar s Opera written by John Gay and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That when I die this word may stand for me- He had a heart to praise, an eye to see, And beauty was his king. Dead at the age of thirty-one after a sudden operation, Claud Lovat Fraser was as surely a victim of the war as though he had fallen in action. He was full of vigour for his work, but shell-shock had left him with a heart that could not stand a strain of this kind, and all his own fine courage could not help the surgeons in a losing fight. We are not sorry for him-we learn that, not to be sorry for the dead. But for ourselves? This terror is always so fresh, so unexampled. I had telephoned to him to ask whether he would help me in a certain theatrical enterprise. I was told by his servant that he was ill, but one hears these things so often that one gave but little thought to it beyond sending a telegram asking for news; and now this. Personal griefs are of no public interest, but here is as sad a public loss as has befallen us, if the world can measure truly, in our generation. But it is not, I think, of our loss that we should speak now. These desolations, strangely, have a way of bringing their own fortitude. A few hours after hearing, without any warning, of Lovat Fraser's death, I was walking among the English landscape that he loved so well, and I felt there how poor and inadequate a thing death really was, how little to be feared. This apparent intention to destroy a life and genius so young, so admirable, and so rich in promise, seemed, for all the hurt, in some way wholly to have failed.
Download or read book The Beggar s Opera written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
