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Polly : an opera : being a sequel to The beggar's opera / by Mr. Gay ; now freely adapted by Clifford Bax.

Book/Text

New York : Moffat, Yard, [192-?]

192

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The beggar's opera [by] John Gay. Pastorale à Newgate. Introd. et traduction de V. Dupont. Texte anglais fac-simile de la 4. éd (1735) comprenant les chansons et les airs ainsi que l'Ouverture.

Book/Text

Toulouse, Association des publications de la Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines de Toulouse, 1967.

1967

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FormatBook/TextCall numberL-11 1522 v. 3-4Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall number*MZ (Pepusch. Beggar's opera. 1967)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Acis and Galatea, composed by G. F. Handel. Arranged for the piano-forte or organ by John Clarke.

Notated music

London, Jones (Temple of the Muses) 1835.

1835

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FormatNotated musicCall numberJMG 76-290Item locationOffsite

Bounce to Fop. An heroick epistle from a dog at Twickenham to a dog at Court. By Dr. S---t.

Book/Text

Dublin, Printed; London, Reprinted for T. Cooper, 1736.

1736

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FormatBook/TextCall numberBerg Coll 76-426Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
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Tábano, un zumbido que no cesa / Equipo Pipirijaina.

Book/Text

Madrid : Editorial Ayuso, c1975.

1975

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWEK 76-3118Item locationOffsite

Court poems. [Viz; I. The basset-table. An eclogue. II. The drawing-room. III. The toilet. Publish'd faithfully, as they were found in a pocket-book taken up in Westminster-Hall, the last day of the Lord Winton's tryal.

Book/Text

London, Printed for J. Roberts, 1706 [i.e. 1716].

1716

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FormatBook/TextCall numberBerg Coll 76-459Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Court poems. Viz; I. The basset-table. An eclogue. II. The drawing-room. III. The toilet. A copy of verses to the ingenious Mr. Moore, author of the celebrated worm-powder. All four by Mr. Pope. To which is added W. T. to fair Clio.

Book/Text

Dublin, Reprinted by S Powell; for G. Risk, bookseller, 1716.

1716

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FormatBook/TextCall numberBerg Coll 76-460 no. 7 Bound with fire and faggot. London, 1712Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Court poems. In two parts. By Mr. Pope, &c.

Book/Text

London, Printed for E. Curll, 1726.

1726

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FormatBook/TextCall numberBerg Coll 76-495Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Court poems. In two parts. By Mr. Pope, &c.

Book/Text

London, Printed for E. Curll, 1726.

1726

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FormatBook/TextCall numberBerg Coll 76-461Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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The beggar's opera, by John Gay. With an introd. by Oswald Doughty.

Book/Text

New York, Dover Publications [1973]

1973

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJME 76-132Item locationOffsite

A song with a symphony for a hoboy and violins.

Notated music

[London, ca. 1750]

1750

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FormatNotated musicCall numberBerg Coll 79-100 no. 113Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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A song set by an eminent master.

Notated music

[London, ca. 1722?]

1722

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FormatNotated musicCall numberBerg Coll 79-100 no. 119Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Acis and Galatea: an English pastoral opera. In three acts. As it is perform'd at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market, set to musick by Mr. Handel.

Book/Text

London, Printed for J. Watts, 1732.

1732

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FormatBook/TextCall numberBerg Coll 79-424 no. 4 Bound with Johnson, Charles. The tragedy of Medea. London, 1731Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Acis and Galatea [sound recording] [1st version: Cannons, ca. 1718].

Musical recording

Archiv Produktion 2708 038 (2533 396-2533 397). p1978.

1978

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FormatMusical recordingCall number*LSRX 4339Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Acis and Galatea; a mask as it was originally composed with the overture, recitativo's, songs, duets & choruses, for voices and instruments.

Notated music

London, Printed for I. Walsh [1743]

1743

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FormatNotated musicCall numberJOG 81-5Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Acis and Galatea / composed by G.F. Handel ; arr. for the organ or piano forte by John Clarke.

Notated music

London : Printed for Button & Whitaker, [1809?]

1809

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The Beggar's opera [sound recording] : original songs & airs = L'Opéra des gueux : chansons & airs originaux.

Musical recording

1982-1981

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FormatMusical recordingCall number*LSRX 12636Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Operah bi-grush : maḥazeh bi-8 temunot.

Book/Text

[Tel-Aviv : Yaḥdaṿ, 1933]

1933

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FormatBook/TextCall number*PSH 00-3162Item locationOffsite

The Beggar's opera [sound recording] / John Gay ; new performing version by Richard Bonynge and Douglas Gamley ; orchestrated by Douglas Gamley.

Musical recording

New York : London : Distributed by Polygram Distribution, p1981.

1981

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FormatMusical recordingCall number*LSRX 8755Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Polly / written by Mr. Gay ; drawings by William Nicholson.

Book/Text

London : W. Heinemann, 1923.

1923

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJMF 92-121Item locationOffsite

The Music of John Gay's The beggar's opera / edited and arranged from eighteenth-century sources by Jeremy Barlow.

Notated music

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1990.

1990

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FormatNotated musicCall numberJMF 92-158Item locationOffsite

Dreigroschenroman / Bertolt Brecht.

Book/Text

Moskau : Verlagsgenossenschaft ausländischer Arbeiter in der UdSSR, 1935.

1935

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FormatBook/TextCall numberC-11 523Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Polly oder Die Bataille am Bluewater Creek. Nach John Gay.

Book/Text

Berlin, Henschelverlag, 1966.

1966

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FormatBook/TextCall numberC-13 3819 no. 1-7Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Miscellanies / by Dr. Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Pope, and Mr. Gay.

Book/Text

London : Printed for Charles Bathurst; and sold by T. Woodward, C. Davis, C. Hitch, R. Dodsley, and W. Bowyer, 1751-1753.

1751-1753

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FormatBook/TextCall numberNCF (Swift, J. Miscellanies) v. 7Item locationOffsite

Miscellanies.

Book/Text

London : Benjamin Motte and Charles Bathurst, 1736.

1736

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Miscellanies in prose and verse.

Book/Text

London, B. Motte, 1727-1735.

1727-1735

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Acis & Galatea [sound recording] : a masque in two acts / Handel.

Music CD

Providence, RI : Newport Classic, [c1988].

1988-1986

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FormatMusic CDCall number*LDC 3262 (F)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope, and several of his friends.

Book/Text

London, Printed by J. Wright for J. Knapton [etc.] 1737-41.

1737-1741

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FormatBook/TextCall numberNDD (Pope, A. Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope) v. 2Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The beggar's opera. Written by Mr. Gay. To which is prefixed the musick to each song ...

Book/Text

London, W. Heinemann, 1921.

1921

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FormatBook/TextCall number*KL (Fraser) (Gay. J. Beggar's opera)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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The beggar's opera. By John Gay. Edited by Benjamin W. Griffith, Jr. Illus. By Keagh.

Book/Text

Great Neck, N.Y., Barron's Educational Series [1962]

1962

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FormatBook/TextCall number*MZ (Pepusch, J. C. Beggar's opera. 1962)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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The pirate's opera [microform] : 1729 ; John Gay's original Polly, the second part of The beggar's opera / revised by Alexander Laszlo and Lydia Regehr ; lyric by John Gay; original revised, new added by Lydia Regehr ; new music by Alexander Laszlo.

Microform

Hollywood, Calif : Guild Publications of California, c1966.

1966

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The beggar's opera. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Gay ...

Book/Text

London, Printed for J. Watts, 1728.

1728

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FormatBook/TextCall numberDrexel 5675-5675.7Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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FormatBook/TextCall number*KC 1728 (Gay, J. Beggar's opera. London (2nd ed.))Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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A Selection of fables from the best English writers, containing the largest collection ever published; selected from Dryden, Swift, Wilkie, Whitehead, Cotton, Merrick, Shenitone [!]; Garrick, Smart; Somerville, Peter Pindar, &c. &c. &c. including all the fables of Gay and Moore.

Book/Text

New York, Printed for the editor, 1798.

1798

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FormatBook/TextCall number*KD 1798 (Selection of fables)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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The Beggar's opera and Lionel and Clarissa [sound recording] :/ music and book by Gay/Pepusch, arr. Austin, and Bickerstaff/Dibdin arr. Reynolds

Music CD

Sparrows Green, England : Pavillion Records, p1991.

1991-1925

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FormatMusic CDCall number*LDC 13968 (F)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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The beggar's opera [sound recording] / Gay ; Britten.

Music CD

London : Argo, p1993.

1993-1992

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FormatMusic CDCall number*LDC 18501Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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John Gay's The beggar's opera [sound recording] : [With the authentick, compleat and original songs, and selected text, to which is prefixed the overture composed by Pepusch. Newly realized with the original instrumentation and conducted by Max Goberman].

Musical recording

Hollywood, Calif. : Everest, [1962]

1962

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FormatMusical recordingCall number*LZR 25657 [Libretto]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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FormatMusical recordingCall number*LZR 25657 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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The beggar's opera [sound recording].

Musical recording

[S.l.] : Everest, [196-?]

1960-1969

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FormatMusical recordingCall number*LSRX 10681 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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