The Threepenny Opera (Student Editions)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 1979
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 144 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781350205291
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781350205284
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 01/05/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Bertolt-Brecht-Erben / Suhrkamp Verlag
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Anja Hartl
- Translator:
- John Willett
- Translator:
- Ralph Manheim
- With:
- Elisabeth Hauptmann
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