Plays I-II and Poems (Three-Volume Set)
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Vol II - spine damage. Internally sound.
A collection of Augustan drama and verse, this three-volume set gathers the complete plays and poems of John Gay, presenting the sharp social satire and theatrical invention of the writer who upended the London stage with "The Beggar's Opera," alongside his verse fables and poetry that skewered the political corruption and moral pretension of early eighteenth-century English society with wit that contemporaries including Swift and Pope recognised as the sharpest of their age.
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Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Vol II - spine damage. Internally sound.
A collection of Augustan drama and verse, this three-volume set gathers the complete plays and poems of John Gay, presenting the sharp social satire and theatrical invention of the writer who upended the London stage with "The Beggar's Opera," alongside his verse fables and poetry that skewered the political corruption and moral pretension of early eighteenth-century English society with wit that contemporaries including Swift and Pope recognised as the sharpest of their age.
