The Beggars Opera introduced to theater the balladopera and an immortalcast of characters. The Peachums employers of a company of pickpocketsshoplifters and thi... » 

The Beggars Opera introduced to theater the balladopera and an immortalcast of characters. The Peachums employers of a company of pickpocketsshoplifters and thieves raised their daughter Polly for finer things but shehas done a dreadful deed. She has married for love. Her husband is Macheath soexquisite a robber he might have been a lawyer or lord and so devoted tomatrimony that he has two or three wives already. «