Description: Threepenny Opera, Paperback by Brecht, Bertolt, ISBN 0413390306, ISBN-13 9780413390301, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
Based on John Gays eighteenth century Beggars Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. It focuses on the feud between Macheaf - an amoral criminal - and his father in law, a racketeer who controls and exploits Londons beggars and is intent on having Macheaf hanged. Despite the resistance by Macheafs friend the Chief of Police, Macheaf is eventually condemned to hang until in a comic reversal the queen pardons him and grants him a title and land. With Kurt Weills unforgettable music - one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz to the theatre - it became a popular hit throughout the western world.
Published in Methuen Dramas Modern Classics series in a trusted translation by Ralph Manheim and John Willett, this edition features extensive notes and commentary including an introduction to the play, Brechts own notes on the play, a full appendix of textual variants, a note by composer Kurt Weill, a transcript of a discussion about the play between Brecht and a theatre director, plus editorial notes on the genesis of the play.
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Book Title: Threepenny Opera
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Item Height: 0.3 in
Publication Year: 2008
Topic: European / General, General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Drama
Item Weight: 5.9 Oz
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Item Length: 8 in
Book Series: Modern Classics Ser.
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
