Full text of the play (1728), and an articulate introduction, from the University of Oregon.
Still popular, in regional and local productions, attempts at authenticity with period instrumentation, the even more popular musical rewriting by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, another adaptation by former Czech president Vaclav Havel.
William Hogarth at the Tate Gallery; Hogarth's depiction of Beggar's Opera Act III, scene 11, as it may have looked in its first production on the London stage.
The title page from the first edition of the score for Handel's Rinaldo (1711).
Handel and Gay collaborate for Acis and Galatea (1719).
Prime Minister Robert Walpole.
The public hanging of Jack Sheppard.
Jonathan Wild, thief-taker, "great man," notorious criminal, on his way to the gallows.
A contemporary account of Jonathan Wild from The Complete Newgate Calendar (online at the Univ. of Texas).
"But gold from law can take out the sting..."
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