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Harlots, Rakes and Bawds (The Ballad Opera, Volume III)
Author(s): Cooke, Thomas; Odell, Thomas; Coffey, Charles; Potter, Henry; Rubsamen, Walter H (selected and arranged by)
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Volume Condition: | Very Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | N/A |
| Dust Jacket Protection: | N/A |
| Edition: | 1st Thus |
| Signature: | None |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Garland Publishing |
| Publication Year: | 1974 |
| Publication Place: | New York, USA |
| Book ID: | 030857 |
| Catalogue(s): | Literary History and Criticism ◇ Performance Arts and Plays ◇ Movies, Cinema and Entertainment |
First thus. Unpaginated but circa 250pp. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. 8vo. A little rubbed and rounded at ends of a slightly sunned spine else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.
Volume containing facsimile reproductions of six ballad operas (musical plays) from the first part of the 18th century, namely Love and Revenge or the Vintner Outwitted - an Opera; The Patrons, or the Statesman's Opera; Colonel Split-Tail - a New Opera; The Female Parson, or Beau in the Sudds - An Opera; The Decoy: An Opera; and The Jew Decoy'd, or the Progress of a Harlot - A New Ballad Opera.
Keywords:
Opera
Ballads
Theatre History
