The Threepenny Opera |
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| Author:
| Brecht, Bertolt
Weill, Kurt |
| Editor:
| Hartl, Anja |
| Series edited by:
| Megson, Chris
Stevens, Jenny
Nichols, Matthew
Freeman, Sara |
| Translator:
| Willett, John
Manheim, Ralph |
| As told to:
| Hauptmann, Elisabeth |
| Series title: | Student Editions Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-350-20528-4 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2022 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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| Imprint: | Methuen Drama |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $26.99 |
Book Description:
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One of Bertolt Brecht's best-loved and most performed plays, The Threepenny Opera was first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble). Based on the eighteenth-century The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, the play is a satire on the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. With Kurt Weill's music, which was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to...
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One of Bertolt Brecht's best-loved and most performed plays, The Threepenny Opera was first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble).
Based on the eighteenth-century The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, the play is a satire on the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho.
With Kurt Weill's music, which was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce the jazz idiom into the theatre, it became a popular hit throughout the western world.
This new edition is published here in John Willett and Ralph Manhein's classic translation with commentary and notes by Anja Hartl.