# Love and Marriage as Transaction in The Beggar’s Opera

> Theme guide for The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay.

Romantic relationships and marriages are portrayed as economic exchanges, where affection is traded for money, security, or social advantage, and promises are broken without consequence.

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