Jonathan Wild (1683-1725)
Thief-taker and criminal, the model for Peachum in Gay's Beggar's
Opera (1728) and the subject of Fielding's fictional Jonathan
Wild the Great (1743).
Thief-taker and criminal, the model for Peachum in Gay's Beggar's
Opera (1728) and the subject of Fielding's fictional Jonathan
Wild the Great (1743).