John Gay's The Beggar's OperaHarold Bloom Chelsea House Publishers, 1988 - 143 Seiten |
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... Peachum and Macheath . Peachum and Mrs. Peachum rarely address Polly with- out calling her a slut or hussy , and Lockit does as well with Lucy . Macheath , in everything he says to his gang or his women , is as nobly rhetorical as the ...
... Peachum and Macheath . Peachum and Mrs. Peachum rarely address Polly with- out calling her a slut or hussy , and Lockit does as well with Lucy . Macheath , in everything he says to his gang or his women , is as nobly rhetorical as the ...
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... Peachum's kind of piety is indeed put in its place , but we are not told that it need be hypocritical . Yet there seems a touch of archness in " going to sea , Filch . " One can only say that Mrs. Peachum is between simplicity and the ...
... Peachum's kind of piety is indeed put in its place , but we are not told that it need be hypocritical . Yet there seems a touch of archness in " going to sea , Filch . " One can only say that Mrs. Peachum is between simplicity and the ...
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... Peachum . By this time Mrs. Peachum ( who pleaded for a brave man before ) is firmly entrenched in bru- tality behind her bourgeois " duty . " MRS . PEACHUM , PEACHUM , POLLY listening . MRS . PEACHUM : The thing , husband , must and ...
... Peachum . By this time Mrs. Peachum ( who pleaded for a brave man before ) is firmly entrenched in bru- tality behind her bourgeois " duty . " MRS . PEACHUM , PEACHUM , POLLY listening . MRS . PEACHUM : The thing , husband , must and ...
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Mockpastoral as the Cult | 5 |
Mercenary Fathers Possessive Daughters | 37 |
The Beggars Triumph | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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