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9 Cards in this Set
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"exploring this uniquely eighteenth-century identity crisis" |
"each satirizes... a new kind of commercial and material order in England" (Michael Seidel, 1998) |
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Metatextual Compliance of the author |
the Player enters to remind the Beggar that a conventional opera 'must end happily'. The Beggar complies, at the cost of sense itself, as 'in this kind of Drama, 'tis no matter how absurdly things are brought about'. - the Beggar appeals to mainstream demand and marketability (literary commodification) |
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"fully-accessible popular ballads. " |
In The Beggar's Opera, Gay replaces the ostentatious, senseless Italian opera of the day with fully-accessible popular ballads. "I have not made my Opera throughout unnatural, like those in vogue" |
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objects of exchange |
The Beggar's Opera = the transformation of mankind itself into the agents and objects of exchange. |
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Money matters |
Peachums consoles wife: 'money... is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations: there is not a spot or stain but what it can take out' "A rich rogue nowadays is suitable company for any Gentleman" - personal and social matters in monetary forms |
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THE THING |
"What die Offense from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contexts rise from trivial things" -- situation is trivial, but also a focus on THINGS |
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- commodity fetishism |
Belinda's dressing-table: "Th'inferior Priestess, at her Altar's side,/ Trembling, begins the sacred Rites of Pride" - commodity fetishism "commodity to look itself in the face" |
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World of objects |
world of objects: "the casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box unite" -- British trade and imperialism - mercantile capitalism |
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- female beauty as socio economic scale |
ABUNDANCE OF THINGS: "snatch'd my best, my fav'rite curl away" ephemeral world of commodities aligned with ephemeral world of female vanity... [easy to undermine] TILLOTSON: "the epic is thing-less beside Pope's poem with its close-packed material objects" |
