Which of the following was NOT a result of the popularity of The Beggar's Opera?

Group of answer choices

Plays became more daring and critical of the government, eventually leading to the highly restrictive Licensing Act of $1737.$

Sermons denouncing the wickedness of the play became commonplace.

Robert Walpole, London's first Prime Minister, was driven from office in disgrace.

Over a hundred new ballad opera's were written, several new theaters were established, and more and more authors turned to writing plays.