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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (3): 19–30.
Published: 01 September 2000
...John Richardson The College of William & Mary 2000 John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera, and
Forms of Resistance
It is a truism that The Beggar’s Opera (1728) articulates dissent through
form as much as through content...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 83–100.
Published: 01 September 2022
... between. True, in his ballad operas from that period, he borrowed a number of the composer's melodies, but in multiple instances, he attached comic lyrics that mocked their seriousness. This paper contends that Fielding's apparent change in attitude in the 1740s was rooted in Handel's own change as he...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 52–82.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Robert D. Hume Little scholarly attention has been devoted to the dramaturgy of Handel's operas, which seems secondary to musical and circumstantial matters of venue and performers. This article argues that important things can be learned by attempting to categorize, analyze, and assess...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 65–82.
Published: 01 April 2010
...William Gibbons The magician Zoroastro plays a critical role in Handel's opera Orlando (1733). He opens the first act with a dramatic monologue, keeps the hero Orlando from wreaking too much havoc in his madness, and eventually brings the opera to a peaceful conclusion. Despite his importance...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 36–67.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Keith Johnston Montesquieu's climatological theory of character played an important role in English musical criticism in the third quarter of the eighteenth century and helped form an intellectual basis for an English critique of Italian comic opera in the sentimental mode. Critics like Joseph...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 36–65.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Amy Dunagin The first two sustained efforts to chronicle the history of English music were conducted independently during the 1710s and 1720s by Thomas Tudway and Roger North. They wrote in the context of the escalating popularity of Italian opera in England. Their histories also resonated...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 23–44.
Published: 01 April 2002
...,
while Aeneas’ abandonment of Dido warns William III against neglecting
England— although it should be noted that that would have deeply
offended the new monarchs.3 Many critics agree upon a première of 1689;4
but others object that the opera’s musical style pre-dates 1689...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 137–140.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Oleg Timofeyev Naroditskaya Inna . Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage . ( New York : Oxford Univ. , 2012 ). Pp. xvi + 401 . $74 Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Review Essay
Russia’s Male and Female...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 84–101.
Published: 01 January 2018
... in the
cartoon style of Hudibras. That they were rejected as “not finished” suggests
that they were painted in the broken sketchy manner of Falstaff Examining
his Recruits and The Beggar’s Opera. These, I suspect, are the earliest datable
paintings, at least of any significance, both following close upon...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 19–31.
Published: 01 April 2001
...
What was the artistic climate that year? In the spring the opera com-
pany was having its most profitable season (the only one in which it de-
clared a dividend), with three new operas—Handel’s Floridante, and Griselda
and Crispo by composer Giovanni Bononcini...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 116–119.
Published: 01 January 2009
... writing career and to the literary trope, or
myth, that coalesced from the tragic story of the American princess Yarico.
The editors offer the farce Incle and Yarico (1787) and the comic opera The Incas
(1792) not only to augment Thelwall’s growing canon, but also to illuminate his
spirited...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 88–96.
Published: 01 January 2023
.... In composing The Threepenny Opera , Brecht and Kurt Weill must, of course, have come across John Gay's ballad opera and somehow or other saw an engraving of Hogarth's A Scene from the Beggar's Opera (1731), perhaps the one by William Blake. Features of these Beggar's Opera pictures make them forerunners...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 20–56.
Published: 01 September 2017
.... For example, Farquhar’s The
Constant Couple (1699) may well have had the most performances in its first
season of any play before The Beggar’s Opera (1728), which enjoyed 62. Far-
quhar claimed 50 performances in five months in his preface to The Incon-
stant (1702). Is this both possible and plausible...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 30–65.
Published: 01 April 2015
... featured
the motto on a banner in multiple versions of his paintings of John Gay’s
The Beggar’s Opera—an element of Hogarth’s painting later reproduced by
William Blake in his engravings of the image.5
But it is also during the eighteenth century that the tutorial role of
the theater as mirror...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 82–100.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., these practices included gatherings in coffeehouses and assembly rooms, professional and amateur theater, music, and opera, Freemason lodges, literary and scientific societies, and what were later called “salons.” In all these forms of behavior, the contrast between light and darkness was enhanced...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 101–114.
Published: 01 September 2019
... s Opera, and his ill reputation among playwrights for his sadistic pleasure in refusing scripts, which he jokingly referred to as the choking of singing birds.4 The chapter does, however, vividly convey the enormous degree of financial and artistic success Drury Lane enjoyed under the triumvirate...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 83–86.
Published: 01 September 2015
... other plays (sometimes his own). They vary widely in tone and
subject matter, from domestic comedy, to ballad opera, to mock-tragedy, to
satire, to outright burlesque, and in form, from the short single-act afterpiece,
to the traditional five-act drama, with many variations in between. What...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 158–164.
Published: 01 September 2014
...”
(1733), which ridicules the fine ladies at the opera:
But ah! Beware, lest list’ning to the song,
Your transport, or your sorrow, shou’d be wrong;
When you shou’d smile or sob, shou’d laugh or cry,
The hint still taking from the neighbour’s eye.
Although it is tempting...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 134–147.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Poussin. On the verbal side they include Field-
ing’s burlesque mode in The Grub Street Opera, the gender politics of Fielding’s
Joseph Andrews and Richardson’s Pamela, and the suggestive presence of certain
phrases, words, and letters in the images themselves.
A decade later, in Hogarth’s...
Journal Article
“The Call of the Popular” Revisited; Or, English Literary History's Resistance to Balladry Corrected
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 138–143.
Published: 01 January 2009
..., but also to a broader public that
ranges across the demarcations of social rank.
After discussing Thomas D’Urfey as precursor, Newman moves to John
Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (1728). His interpretation of Gay’s skewering social
critique follows previous readings fairly closely, as he explores how...
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