Introduction / The Beggar's Opera in its own time / Yvonne Noble -- The Beggar's Opera: Mock-Postoral as the cult of independence / William Empson -- From The Augustans / Maynard Mack -- From To the Palace of Wisdom / Martin Price -- From Comedy and Society from Congreve to Fielding / John Loftis -- From English Theatre Music in the Eighteenth Century / Roger Fiske -- The shepherd as gamester: musical mock-pastoral in The Beggars Opera / Eric Kuitz -- The Beggar's Opera as Christian satire / Harold Gene Moss -- "A double capacity": The Beggar's Opera / Ian Donaldson -- From the Beggar's Opera / Bertrand Harris Bronson.
