Talk:The Beggar's Opera

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Contents 1 comments 2 Separate article for the film 3 Inspiration for the name Macheath? 4 Satire 5 Original Research?

[edit] comments

Text is a modified version of the intro from http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/beggar.html.

That page says:

This text was prepared by Richard Bear from a 1921 B. Huebsch edition of the 1765 text. The text is in the public domain; markup is copyright © The University of Oregon, 1995. Additions, emendations, or commments to: rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu.

I moved over only the text, and NOT any of the markup, which is under copyright. -- Dreamword 01:45 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Separate article for the film

i am in favour of making a separate article for the film. - Kleinzach 20:43, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inspiration for the name Macheath?

Mac was a highwayman, and one of the most popular hangouts for such men was Blackheath, a suburb of London. The place must have been an inspiration for the character, but I wouldn't want to add that into the article without the proper citation, as it'd be OR.

Note: also posted on Talk:The Threepenny Opera. -- Cielomobile ^{talk / contribs} 07:13, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, James MacLaine was a notorious highwayman of the time. -- ALoan (Talk) 12:32, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Interesting. I wish there was a source for linking the two, but it is not all that important, I suppose. -- Cielomobile ^{talk / contribs} 23:51, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Satire

Can we explain in what way this is a satire on Walpole and the Whigs ? -- Beardo 14:29, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Original Research?

Someone added a whole lot of unreferenced info to the article. If you cannot reference this information (see WP:RS it must be deleted. Where does this information come from? I tried to clean up the grammar and remove some of the hyperbole at least, but I have no idea if the new info is completely WP:OR. It also needs to be wikified. -- Ssilvers 15:50, 10 November 2007 (UTC)