The threepenny opera
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-19562022
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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.
Main title:
The threepenny opera / by Bertolt Brecht (text/lyrics) and Kurt Weill (music) in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann ; translated from German by Ralph Manheim and John Willett ; with commentary and notes by Anja Hartl.
Author:
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956, authorHartl, Anja, editorWillett, John, 1917-2002, translatorManheim, Ralph, 1907-1992, translatorHauptmann, Elisabeth, collaborator
Work:
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2022.©2005.
Collation:
xxxv, 114 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
First published in 2005.Includes bibliographical references.Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9781350205284
Dewey class:
832.912832.9
Language:
EnglishGerman
Subject:
BRN:
762845
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| City Library | -Literature | LITER 832.9 BREC | Available |