John Gay's The Beggar's Opera 1728-2004 : : Adaptations and Re-Writings /

John Gay's The Beggar's Opera 1728-2004 : : Adaptations and Re-Writings / / edited by Uwe Böker, Ines Detmers, Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos.

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When Richard Steele remarked that the greatest Evils in human Society are such as no Law can come at, he was not able to forsee the spectacular success of John Gay's satire of society, the administration of law and crime, politics, the Italian opera and other topics. Gay's The Beggar'...

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Superior document:Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 105
TeilnehmendeR:
Böker, Uwe,
Detmers, Ines,
Giovanopoulos, Anna-Christina,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 105.
Physical Description:1 online resource (348 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Calendar of Important Adaptations and Re-Writings 1920-2004
  • Uwe BÖKER, Ines DETMERS and Anna-Christina GIOVANOPOULOS: From Gay to Brecht and Beyond: Imitation and Re-Writing of The Beggar's Opera - 1728 to 2004
  • Uwe BÖKER: John Gays The Beggar's Opera und die sozialhistorischen Kontexte: Satire, Kriminalität, Ballade, Oper, Kommerzialisierung
  • Ian GALLAGHER: The Beggar's Opera and its Criminal Law Context
  • Horst HÖHNE: Die Fortsetzung der Beggar's Opera: Polly (1728)
  • Anna-Christina GIOVANOPOULOS: Robert Walpole und Jonathan Wild: Die satirischen Bezugspersonen von John Gays The Beggar's Opera
  • Frank ENGELMANN: A Late Eighteenth-Century Ballad Opera and John Wilkes: The Bow-Street Opera (1773)
  • Klaus SCHUHMACHER: Ekstasen der Sachlichkeit: Zur Dreigroschenoper (1928) von Bertolt Brecht und Kurt Weill
  • Uwe BÖKER: John Gays The Beggar's Opera und Václav Havels Zebrácká opera (1975)
  • Wumi RAJI: Opera Wonyosi (1977): Strategies of a Postcolonial Response to a Western Operatic Drama
  • Kathrin SARTINGEN: Rewriting als produktive Differenz: Chico Buarque de Hollandas Ópera do Malandro (1978) als brasilianische Wiederkehr von John Gays The Beggar's Opera
  • Christoph Oliver MAYER: Italiens Spaßmacher schlägt wieder zu: Dario Fos L'opera dello sghignazzo (1981) als provokatives Rewriting der Bettleroper
  • Anja MÜLLER: Alan Ayckbourn's Beggar's Opera as A Chorus of Disapproval (1984)
  • Contributors.

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