The Beggar's Opera - Couverture souple

Gay, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822216744 ISBN 13 : 9780822216742

Editeur : Dramatist's Play Service, 1998

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Born in 1685, John Gay's first major success was THE SHEPHERD'S WEEK. It was followed by a number of other works, the most enduring of which is THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Gay died in 1732, and is remembered as a popular and genial man whose self-penned epitaph reads 'Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought it once, and now I know it'. Loughrey and Treadwell worked together at Roehampton Institute and have both published in scholarly journals.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dramatist's Play Service
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822216744
• ISBN 13: 9780822216742
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible