Classic to Modern English Literature

 The Beggar’s Opera, as the most popular play of the eighteenth century writer John Gay. It is Ballad Opera which hits their height of  popularity during the early 18th century, in England. In the course of the story, the protagonist, Macheath, a highwayman who has secretly married Peachum's daughter, Polly. In this regard, Polly's father, Mr. Peachum wanted to kill Macheath. The story satirised politics, poverty and injustice, focusing on the theme of corruption at all levels of society. John Gay wrote The Beggar’s Opera in 1728 alongside Johann Christoph Pepusch, who arranged the music. The Beggar's Opera premiered at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre on 29 January 1728. In 1920, The Beggar's Opera began a revival run of 1,463 performances at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, London. According to, American News Paper, The New York Times "Gay wrote the work more as an anti-opera than an opera, one of its attractions to its 18th-century London public being its l