The Threepenny Opera (Paperback)

Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill; As told to Elisabeth Hauptmann; Edited by Anja Hartl; Translated by John Willett, Ralph Manheim

Series: Student Editions

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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.

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Imprint:	Methuen Drama
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Student Editions
Release date:	February 2022
Authors:	Bertolt Brecht • Kurt Weill
As told to:	Elisabeth Hauptmann
Editors:	Anja Hartl
Translators:	John Willett • Ralph Manheim
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	152
ISBN-13:	978-1-350-20528-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General Promotions
LSN:	1-350-20528-1
Barcode:	9781350205284