A chorus of disapproval / by Ayckbourn, Alan, 1939-

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Drama in English from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century : an anthology of plays with old spelling /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Drama of the Middle Ages -- Noah's flood (Chester cycle) -- Abraham and Isaac (Brome manuscript) -- The second shepherds (Wakefield/Towneley cycle) -- The crucifixion (York cycle) -- Everyman -- Drama of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries -- The shoemaker's holiday / Thomas Dekker -- The Jew of Malta / Christopher Marlowe -- Volpone / Ben Jonson -- The Duchess of Malfy / John Webster -- The knight of the burning pestle / Francis Beaumont -- Drama of the restoration and early eighteenth century -- All for love / John Dryden -- The plain dealer / William Wycherley -- The beaux' stratagem / George Farquhar -- The London merchant / George Lillo -- The beggar's opera / John Gay -- Drama of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The Shaughraun / Dion Boucicault -- The playboy of the Western world / John Synge -- St. …”
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A chorus of disapproval / by Ayckbourn, Alan, 1939-

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Eighteenth-century Brechtians : theatrical satire in the age of Walpole / by Schechter, Joel, 1947-

Concert Room and Orchestra Anecdotes of Music and Musicians, Ancient and Modern. by Busby, Thomas

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Popular fictions : essays in literature and history /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; General Editor'sPreface; List of Contributors; Editors'Note; 1 Introduction; 2 Literature and the Grub StreetMyth; 3 Beggars and Thieves: The Beggar's Opera as CrimeDrama; 4 The Moment of Pickwick, or the Production of a CommodityText; 5 History and 'Literary Value': Adam Bede and SalemChapel; 6 What Shall We do with the Starving Baby? …”
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English plays, 1660-1820, by Morgan, A. E. 1886-1972

Anything goes : a history of American musical theatre / by Mordden, Ethan, 1947-

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The marriage between literature and music /

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introductory Essay -- Part I -- From the Beggars' Opera to The Threepenny Opera -- George Eliot and her Musical Affinity in The Mill on the Floss -- "The Voice of Nethermere" (A Cantata) -- 'Piano': Swinging Between Past and Present -- Jazz Sounds and Styles in the Fiction of Jean Rhys, Toni Morrison and Zadie Smith -- Yeats and Crazy Jane: Words for Music Perhaps -- Part II -- 'Smudging the Air with My Song' -- A Primal Source of Music -- Elusive Tunes…”
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The power of laughter and satire in early modern Britain : political and religious culture, 1500-1820 /

Table of Contents: “…Laughter in Early Modern Dialogue -- 3 Farting in the House of Commons: Popular Humour and Political Discourse in Early Modern England -- 4 Continuing Civil War by Other Means: Loyalist Mockery of the Interregnum Church -- 5 Laughter as a Polemical Act in Late Seventeenth-Century England -- 6 Spectacular Opposition: Suppression, Deflection and the Performance of Contempt in John Gay's Beggar's Opera and Polly -- 7 'Laughing a Folly out of Countenance': Laughter and the Limits of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Satire -- 8 Nervous Laughter and the Invasion of Britain 1797-1805 -- 9 'Was a laugh treason?' …”
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Bridging the gap : literary theory in the classroom /

Table of Contents: “…Rawdon Wilson -- 'By any other name': theoretical issues in the teaching of nineteenth-century Black women's autobiography / Joycelyn Moody -- Travel writing, women of color, and the undergraduate romantics course / Jeanne Moskal -- Deconstruction in the classroom: Jane Austen's Persuasion / Imre Salusinszky -- The Beggar's opera and literary historiography: critical pluralism as strategy for teaching a canonical text / Robert J. …”

Cutting edges : postmodern critical essays on eighteenth-century satire /

Table of Contents: “…a context for The rape of the lock / Nigel Wood -- Augustan semiosis / Charles Hinnant -- Pope and his dunciad adversaries : skirmishes on the borders of gentility / Claudia Thomas -- The invention of the countryside : Pope, the idiocy of rural life, and the intellectual view from the suburbs / Donna Landry -- The critique of capitalism and the retreat into art in Gay's Beggar's opera and Fielding's Author's farce / J. Douglas Canfield -- Blocked observation : tautology and paradox in the Vanity of human wishes / Jonathan Lamb -- Satire and the bourgeois subject in Frances Burney's Evelina / John Zomchick -- Goring John Bull : Maria Edgeworth's hibernian high jinks versus the imperialist imaginary / Mitzi Myers -- Elizabeth Hamilton's modern philosophers and the uncertainties of satire / Janice Thaddeus.…”

Documenting eighteenth century satire : Pope, Swift, Gay, and Arbuthnot in historical context / by Rogers, Pat, 1938-

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The deserts of Bohemia : Czech fiction and its social context / by Steiner, Peter

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The threepenny opera / by Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956

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Recordings for a history of Western music, fourth edition, by Donald Jay Grout and Claude V. Palisca, and Norton anthology of Western music, second edition, edited by Claude V. Pal...

Boosey & Hawkes opera anthology : tenor /

Table of Contents: “…Then marry me, Cathy / Carlisle Floyd -- The beggar's opera. O cruel, cruel case! / John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten -- L'amour des trois oranges. …”

A manner of correspondence : a study of the Scriblerus Club / by Brückmann, Patricia Carr, 1932-

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Boosey & Hawkes opera anthology : soprano /

Table of Contents: “…I've dreamt in my life / Carlisle Floyd -- The beggar's opera. I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed, When young at the bar...Ungrateful Macheath! …”

Boosey & Hawkes opera anthology : baritone/bass /

Table of Contents: “…We all come out of the earth / Carlisle Floyd -- The beggar's opera. Thus gamesters united in friendship / John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten -- Aleko. …”