The Beggar’s Opera and Companion Pieces

Edited by C. F. Burgess, this edition of The Beggar’s Opera for performance and study is well annotated and includes excerpts from “Newgate’s Garland”, “An Epistle to a Lady,” “The Hare and Many Friends”; the ballads “Twas When the Seas Were Roaring,” “Sweet William’s Farewell to the Black-ey’d Susan,” “Molly Mog”; and letters to Jonathan Swift and others. Also included are an introduction, a list of the principal dates in the life of John Gay, as well as a selected bibliography.