What is the name of the Highwayman featured in John Gay's musical play, 'The Beggar's Opera'?
The Beggar's Opera (film) (Hugh Griffith) is himself a prisoner in Newgate with the real Macheath, who escapes at the end under cover of the confusion created when the Beggar decides that his fictional Macheath should be reprieved. The film also includes one of the first film performances of the comic actor Kenneth Williams. In the 1700s, a beggar is tossed into London's Newgate jail, along with a pile of papers upon which his unfinished opera is scribbled. The beggar boasts to the other prisoners that his opera, unlike others of the day, is about a real person, the dashing highwayman Captain Macheath, who,
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