What is the name of the Highwayman featured in John Gay's musical play, 'The Beggar's Opera'?
"special services to the court. He certainly did nothing to conciliate the favour of the government by his next work, ""The Beggar's Opera"", a ballad opera produced on the 29 January 1728 by John Rich, in which Sir Robert Walpole was caricatured. This famous piece, which was said to have made ""Rich gay and Gay rich"", was an innovation in many respects. The satire of the play has a double allegory. The character of Peachum was inspired by the thief-taker Jonathan Wild, executed in 1725, and the principal figure of Macheath reflected memories of the French highwayman, Claude Duval, whose"
"John Gay John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for ""The Beggar's Opera"" (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names. Gay was born in Barnstaple, England, and was educated at the town's grammar school. On leaving school he was apprenticed to a silk mercer in London, but being weary, according to Samuel Johnson, ""of either the restraint or the servility of his occupation"", he soon returned to Barnstaple, where he was educated by his"
"Captain Macheath Captain Macheath is a fictional character who appears both in John Gay's ""The Beggar's Opera"" (1728), its sequel ""Polly"" (1777), and roughly 200 years later in Bertolt Brecht's ""The Threepenny Opera"". Macheath made his first appearance in John Gay's ""The Beggar's Opera"" as a chivalrous highwayman. He then appeared as a pirate in Gay's sequel. He was probably inspired in part by Jack Sheppard who, like Macheath, escaped from prison and enjoyed the affections of a prostitute, and despised violence. His nemesis is Peachum who, in John Gay's original work, keeps an account book of unproductive thieves (something"
"The Beggar's Opera The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today. Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the conventions of opera, but without recitative. The lyrics of the airs in the piece are set to popular broadsheet ballads, opera arias, church hymns and folk tunes of the time. ""The Beggar's Opera"" premiered at"
"Samuel Butler (""A Pindarick Ode""), John Gay (""The Beggar's Opera"") and William Harrison Ainsworth (""Rookwood"" and ""Talbot Harland"") to create the iconic image of the gentleman highwayman still beloved today. Mackie, Erin. ""Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates. The Making of the Modern Gentleman in the Eighteenth Century"" Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2009. Sharpe, James. ""Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English highwayman"". London: Profile, 2005. . Sugden, John. 'The Merry Dance of the Highwayman', ""History Today"", March 2017, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 48–52. Sugden, John and Philip. ""The Thief of Hearts: Claude Duval and the Gentleman Highwayman in Fact and Fiction""."
"especially to John Gay and to his most famous work ""The Beggar's Opera"". This served as a means to put forth a general political view and deal with politics in a more critical way unlike any of Fielding's previous plays. The play is a political allegory that satirises Robert Walpole's government and the British monarchy. Fielding also used Gay's technique of swapping London for a pastoral environment. Within the play, a country household represents England and the people represent various leaders and political figures. Fielding also adds many praises of the pastoral life along with favourably portraying roast beef and"
"Beggar's Holiday Beggar's Holiday is a musical with a book and lyrics by John La Touche and music by Duke Ellington. An updated version of ""The Beggar's Opera"" by John Gay, it focuses on a corrupt world inhabited by rakish mobsters and their double crossing gangs, raffish madams and their dissolute whores, panhandlers and street people as they conduct their dirty business, ply their trade, and struggle to survive in brothels, shanty towns, and prisons. The Broadway production, directed by Nicholas Ray and choreographed by Valerie Bettis, opened on December 26, 1946 at The Broadway Theatre, where it ran for"
"""The Beggar's Opera"". In 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with ""The Merchant of Venice"" and ""The Anatomist"". The company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like ""Damon and Phillida"". The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the year the 2,000-seat Park Theatre was built on Chatham Street (now called Park Row). The Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others."
"Circus"", in which John Cleese played the titular criminal who stole only lupins. In ""Blackadder the Third"", Mr. E. Blackadder turns highwayman in the episode ""Amy and Amiability"". In the British children's television series ""Dick Turpin"", starring Richard O'Sullivan, the highwayman was depicted as an 18th-century Robin Hood figure. Additionally the actor Mathew Baynton played Dick Turpin in ""Horrible Histories"". A singing highwayman appears in the fourth episode of the animated mini-series, ""Over the Garden Wall"", ""Songs of the Dark Lantern"". The highwayman known as Juraj Jánošík (1688–1713) became a hero of many folk legends in the Slovak, Czech, and"
"slow march of the British Grenadier Guards is derived, was performed as a stopgap, waiting for the arrival of Faustina Bordoni. In 1727 Handel was commissioned to write four anthems for the Coronation ceremony of King George II. One of these, ""Zadok the Priest"", has been played at every British coronation ceremony since. In 1728 John Gay's ""The Beggar's Opera"", which made fun of the type of Italian opera Handel had popularised in London, premiered at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre and ran for 62 consecutive performances, the longest run in theatre history up to that time. After nine years the"
"ballad ""Patrick Fleming"" (also called ""Patrick Flemmen he was a Valiant Soldier"") about Irish highwayman Patrick Fleming, who was executed in 1650. In the book ""The Folk Songs of North America"", folk music historian Alan Lomax suggests that the song originated in the 17th century, and (based on plot similarities) that John Gay's 1728 ""The Beggar's Opera"" was inspired by Gay hearing an Irish ballad-monger singing ""Whiskey in the Jar"". In regard to the history of the song, Lomax states, ""The folk of seventeenth century Britain liked and admired their local highwaymen; and in Ireland (or Scotland) where the gentlemen"
"characterisation. Following is a list of some of the most highly regarded 20th-century arrangements and settings of the opera. The Beggar's Opera The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today. Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the conventions of opera, but without recitative. The lyrics of the airs in the piece are set"
"November 2012 in Paris. David Serero has also performed, arranged and produced the only Cast Album Recording of Beggar's Holiday. Beggar's Holiday Beggar's Holiday is a musical with a book and lyrics by John La Touche and music by Duke Ellington. An updated version of ""The Beggar's Opera"" by John Gay, it focuses on a corrupt world inhabited by rakish mobsters and their double crossing gangs, raffish madams and their dissolute whores, panhandlers and street people as they conduct their dirty business, ply their trade, and struggle to survive in brothels, shanty towns, and prisons. The Broadway production, directed by"
"on the second charge, he was convicted and sentenced to death. The figure of Jonathan Wild inspired the character of Mr. Peachum in The Beggar's Opera, a satirical ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay. Peachum controls a large group of thieves, and is connected to the government and courts. Because of these connections, he can decide whether to allow a captured criminal to be hung (in that case he receives a reward) or to be released. In Scene II Peachum gives evidence against another member of his gang, Tom Gagg, in exchange for a reward"
"in the shadow of a street corner. In each of his pamphlets Andrew Moreton reprimands the theatre and its effects on the English society, especially in the case of ""The Beggar’s Opera"" (1728), a ballad opera by John Gay, where ""thieves are set out in so amiable a light […] it has taught them to value themselves on their profession rather than to be ashamed of it"". Moreton also includes in ""Second Thoughts Are Best"" harsh criticisms against the obscure ""The Quaker's Opera"" (an imitation of The Beggar’s Opera) by Thomas Walker, even more wicked than the former. He emphasizes"
"on the highway."" These lines quietly and eloquently speak of an England subdued by its justice system. Maclean paid with his life. Plunkett escaped with his money and his life. Maclaine was once thought to be the original model for Macheath the Knife, antihero of John Gay's ""The Beggar's Opera"", but as that was written in 1728, when MacLaine was only 4, this cannot be sustained: the preferred claimant for this distinction is Jack Sheppard. His execution was, however, the subject of an early Cheap Repository Tract in 1795, which went through several editions. A modern, although fictionalised, portrayal of"
"The Highwayman (poem) ""The Highwayman"" is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in the August 1906 issue of ""Blackwood's Magazine"", based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The following year it was included in Noyes' collection, ""Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems"", becoming an immediate success. In 1995 it was voted 15th in the BBC's poll for ""The Nation's Favourite Poems"". The poem, set in 18th century rural England, tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord's daughter. Betrayed to the authorities by Tim, a jealous ostler, the highwayman escapes ambush when Bess"
"quickset hedges, which were ""kept in good order, and indented like town walls."" Marylebone Gardens were mentioned by John Gay in ""The Beggar's Opera"" (1728) as a haunt of its 'hero', the highwayman Macheath. The tavern had become a resort for gambling, and ""There will be deep play tonight"" Macheath says to a confederate, ""and consequently money may be pick'd up on the road. Meet me there, and I'll give you the hint who is worth setting."" The real highwayman Dick Turpin was a visitor in the 1720s. The gardens were used for, amongst other entertainments, gambling, cock-fighting, bull-baiting and"
"Opera"", the singer with his street organ introduces and closes the drama with the tale of the deadly ""Mackie Messer"", or ""Mack the Knife"", a character based on the dashing highwayman Macheath in John Gay's ""The Beggar's Opera"" (who was in turn based on the historical thief Jack Sheppard). The Brecht-Weill version of the character was far more cruel and sinister and has been transformed into a modern anti-hero. The play opens with the singer comparing Macheath (unfavorably) with a shark and then telling tales of his crimes: arson, robbery, rape, murder. The song was a last-minute addition that was"
"Highwayman (song) ""Highwayman"" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb, about a soul with incarnations in four different places in time and history: as a highwayman, a sailor, a construction worker on the Hoover Dam, and finally as a captain of a starship. The song was influenced by the real-life hanged highwayman Jonathan Wild. The dam builder verse alludes to the deaths of over one hundred men during the construction of Hoover Dam near Boulder City, Nevada. Webb first recorded the song on his album ""El Mirage"", released in May 1977. The following year, Glen Campbell recorded his"
"Pope's suggestion, wrote a parody of the updated pastoral in ""The Shepherd's Week."" He also imitated the satires of Juvenal with his ""Trivia"". In 1728, his ""The Beggar's Opera"" was an enormous success, running for an unheard-of eighty performances. All of these works have in common a gesture of compassion. In ""Trivia,"" Gay writes as if commisserating with those who live in London and are menaced by falling masonry and bedpan slops, and ""The Shepherd's Week"" features great detail of the follies of everyday life and eccentric character. Even ""The Beggar's Opera,"" which is a clear satire of Robert Walpole,"
"in the format of The Highwaymen with four different singers singing. In this case it is Jon Schaffer of Iced Earth singing Willie Nelson's part, Russell Allen of Symphony X singing Kris Kristofferson's part, Stu Block of Iced Earth singing Waylon Jennings' part and Michael Poulsen of Volbeat singing Johnny Cash's part. Swedish gothic metal band Beseech covered the song on their 2016 album ""My Darkness, Darkness"". Highwayman (song) ""Highwayman"" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb, about a soul with incarnations in four different places in time and history: as a highwayman, a sailor, a construction worker"
"of what the ideal should be. Pope's friend John Gay also adapted the pastoral. Gay, working at Pope's suggestion, wrote a parody of the updated pastoral in ""The Shepherd's Week."" He also imitated the Satires of Juvenal with his ""Trivia"". In 1728, his ""The Beggar's Opera"" was an enormous success, running for an unheard-of eighty performances. All of these works have in common a gesture of compassion. In ""Trivia,"" Gay writes as if commiserating with those who live in London and are menaced by falling masonry and bedpan slops, and ""The Shepherd's Week"" features great detail of the follies of"
"John Gay's ""The Beggar's Opera"" was extremely successful and ran for 62 times during the season, an unprecedented length of time. The play began to change London theatre through the introduction of political themes and experimentation in form. Following this trend, Fielding pushed politics into the forefront of his plays. This provoked criticism from all sides, including from the playwright Colley Cibber. However, ""The Beggar's Opera"" is not Fielding's only influence; Fielding is part of the theatrical tradition surrounding him, and, as Harold Pagliaro points out, ""Fielding's first play, like all those to follow, is among other things an accommodation"
"The Highwaymen (country supergroup) The Highwaymen was an American country music supergroup, composed of four of the genre's biggest artists, pioneered the outlaw country subgenre: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson. Between 1985 and 1995, the group recorded three major label albums as The Highwaymen: two on Columbia Records and one for Liberty Records. Their Columbia works produced three chart singles, including the number one ""Highwayman"" in 1985. Between 1996 and 1999, Nelson, Kristofferson, Cash, and Jennings provided the voice and dramatization for the ""Louis L'Amour Collection"", a four-CD box set of seven Louis L'Amour stories published"
"John Gay's ""The Beggar's Opera"", which specifically spoofed opera seria of the sort presented by the Royal Academy of Music, opened in London with sensational success and achieved the longest run of any stage piece up to that time. One of Handel's most loyal supporters, Mary Delany, lamented in a letter to a friend:Yesterday I was at the rehearsal of the new opera composed by Handel: I like it extremely, but the taste of the town is so depraved, that nothing will be approved of but the burlesque. The Beggar’s Opera entirely triumphs over the Italian one. I have not"
"person—a statue erected in his honour in Vauxhall Gardens. Within a large and varied musical output, Handel was a vigorous champion of Italian opera, which he had introduced to London in 1711 with ""Rinaldo"". He subsequently wrote and presented more than 40 such operas in London's theatres. By the early 1730s public taste for Italian opera was beginning to fade. The popular success of John Gay and Johann Christoph Pepusch's ""The Beggar's Opera"" (first performed in 1728) had heralded a spate of English-language ballad-operas that mocked the pretensions of Italian opera. With box-office receipts falling, Handel's productions were increasingly reliant"
"a general Applause, insomuch that the Waggs say it has made Rich very Gay, and probably will make Gay very Rich."" (3 February 1728) ""We hear that the British Opera, commonly called ""The Beggar's Opera"", continues to be acted, at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn Fields with general Applause, to the great Mortification of the Performers and Admirers of the Outlandish Opera in the Haymarket."" (17 February 1728) Two weeks after opening night, an article appeared in ""The Craftsman"", the leading opposition newspaper, ostensibly protesting at Gay's work as libellous and ironically assisting him in satirising the Walpole establishment by taking"
"Highway Patrolman ""Highway Patrolman"" is a song written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen and was first released as the fifth track on his 1982 album ""Nebraska"". The song tells the story of Joe Roberts, the highway patrolman of the title from whose viewpoint the song is written and his brother, Franky, and is set in the 1960s. Franky is portrayed as unruly and frequently causing and encountering trouble, while Joe is the more mature, sensible (and likely elder) brother who always comes to his aid. In 1965, Franky joins the United States Army (and presumably is sent to Vietnam, though"
"age when I was genuinely excited by that kind of romantic story."" The Highwayman (poem) ""The Highwayman"" is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in the August 1906 issue of ""Blackwood's Magazine"", based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The following year it was included in Noyes' collection, ""Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems"", becoming an immediate success. In 1995 it was voted 15th in the BBC's poll for ""The Nation's Favourite Poems"". The poem, set in 18th century rural England, tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord's daughter. Betrayed to the"
"Most crimes in our society begin or end on some stretch of road, where laws often terminate at county lines. Combatting these legal blackouts is a new breed of lawman; working the fringes of society's frontiers, and known simply as Highwaymen. This is the story—and the legend—of one such man: The Highwayman. </poem> The 1987 pilot movie starred Sam J. Jones. The lead character is more mysterious than any of the other Highwaymen in that his real name is never revealed (he is only known as ""The Highwayman"" or ""Highway""). He drives a large, black, computerized truck with a bullet-shaped"
"Highway (2002 film) Highway is a 2002 American independent drama film written by Scott Rosenberg and directed by James Cox. It stars Jared Leto, Jake Gyllenhaal and Selma Blair. Set in 1994, the film opens in Las Vegas with Pilot Kelson (Jake Gyllenhaal), a drug dealer, who poses as a valet and takes a customer's Rolls Royce to give his girlfriend a ride to work. His best friend Jack Hayes (Jared Leto) is a self-employed pool cleaner, who gets caught having sex with the wife of Burt Miranda (Mark Rolston), an organized crime figure. While Jack escapes the initial confrontation"
"Peachum, is based on Jonathan Wild. The play was spectacularly popular, restoring the fortune that Gay had lost in the South Sea Bubble, and was produced regularly for over 100 years. An unperformed but published play ""The Prison-Breaker"" was turned into ""The Quaker's Opera"" (in imitation of ""The Beggar's Opera"") and performed at Bartholomew Fair in 1725 and 1728. Two centuries later ""The Beggar's Opera"" was the basis for ""The Threepenny Opera"" of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill (1928). Sheppard's tale may have been an inspiration for William Hogarth's 1747 series of 12 engravings, ""Industry and Idleness"", which shows the"