Full text of the play (1728), and an articulate introduction, from the University of Oregon.
The popular musical rewriting by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, another adaptation by former Czech president Vaclav Havel.
Three songs from the opera (music by Pepusch): "Through all the employments"; "In the days of my youth"; and the climactic number (tune from "Greensleeves"): "Since laws were made."
William Hogarth at the Tate Gallery; Hogarth's depiction of Beggar's Opera Act III, scene 11, as it may have looked in its first production on the London stage.
A recent (2011) production of Handel and Gay's Acis and Galatea.
John Gay gives a lady lampreys.
Prime Minister Robert Walpole.
The public hanging of Jack Sheppard.
Jonathan Wild, thief-taker, "great man," notorious criminal, on his way to the gallows.
The story of Sheppard, from The Complete Newgate Calendar (online at the Univ. of Texas).
"But gold from law can take out the sting..."
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