Achilles: An Opera, As It Is Perform'd At The Theatre-royal In Covent-garden

by John Gay

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An Opera, As It Is Perform'd At The Theatre-Royal In Covent-Garden; Three Centuries Of English And American Plays, 1500-1830; Three Centuries Of English, 1701-1750

John Gay

Printed for J. Watts, 1733

Music; Genres & Styles; Opera; Achilles (Greek mythology); Ballad operas; Music / Genres & Styles / Musicals; Music / Genres & Styles / Opera

88 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 2009

About the author

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John Gay was an English poet and dramatist. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.