Beggar's Opera gennem 250 år

98. Daniel C. Caine, »Beggar's Holiday«,
maskinskrevet manuskript. Denne artikel
samt det øvrige kildemateriale til
Beggar's Holiday er velvilligst stillet til
rådighed af Erik Wiedemann.
99. Music is My Mistress, s. 185.
100. Citeret efter D.C. Caines artikel op.cit,
101. F.eks. Mr. Peachum (Beggar's Opera);
Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum (Dreigroschenoper);
Hamilton Peachum (Beggar's
Holiday).
102. Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967), også
kendt under tilnavnet »See'Pea«, EIlingtons
nære meadarbejder som arrangør
komponist og pianist fra 1939.
103. >iTake Love easy« findes på to Ellington
indspilninger: Columbia G.32564
med bl.a. Johnny Hodges og Dolores
Parker fra november 1947 og Telestar
TRS 11 100 med Alice Babs fra marts
1963. Andre Ellington indspilninger
med musik fra Beggar's Holiday findes
foruden på ovennævnte Columbia plade
endvidere på Joyce 4014 og Joyce
4015.
104. Samuel Johnson, Lives af the English
Poets 1779-81, Everyman's udgave
(London 1954), bd. 2, s. 40
Summary
Beggar's Opera through 250 years - from John Gay to Alan Ayckbourn.
The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, which was originally written as a casual jest,
became a theatrical success in its own days and model for numerous adaptions
and new versions in posterity. Through a selection of examples covering a
period of 250 years the validity and implications of the play and its subject
matter is analyzed; special attention is paid to the way in which various versions
have exploited and made topicai the satiricai and political elements of
Gay's opera. Thus, the article deals with the changes in the way a play is
received through history, laying special stress on the socioligical implication of
the reception. Naturally the emphasis is put upon a comparison between Beggar's
Opera and Brecht's and Weill's Dreigroschenoper - in other words between
London anno 1728 and Berlin anno 1928. Duke Ellington's Beggar's Holiday
and Alan Ayckbourn's A Chorus of Disapproval are included.
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