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The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera
Author: Bertolt Brecht
The Threepenny Opera was Brecht's first and greatest commercial success, and it remains one of his best-loved and most-performed plays. Based on John Gay's eighteenth-century Beggar's Opera, the play is set in Victorian England's Soho but satirizes the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic through its wry lov...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780394174723
ISBN-10: 0394174720
Publication Date: 6/1964
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Grove Press
Book Type: Paperback
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Heres Mack the Knife and his world of murderers, thieves, harlots, and beggars. Youll recognize the opening song, but not necessarily the lyrics. Brecht, it has been said, was adept at mimicking the work of other artists: in this case, John Gays The Beggars Opera (ca. 1727). Some 200 years later, The Threepenny Opera became popular in England in the late 1920s. In the US, it was regurgitated in the 1960s. If you are to read this, you should first read The Beggars Opera.


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