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The Threepenny Opera New ed: Methuen Student Edition (Student Editions) - Softcover

Brecht, Bertolt

 
9780413774521: The Threepenny Opera New ed: Methuen Student Edition (Student Editions)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 041377452X ISBN 13: 9780413774521
Verlag: A&C Black, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

This Student Edition of Brecht's satire on the capitalist society of the Weimar Republic features an extensiveintroduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion ofthe context, themes, characters, style and language as well asquestions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text.It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature. Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera,first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is avicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the WeimarRepublic, 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 London's beggars and is intent on having Macheaf hanged. Despite the resistance by Macheaf's 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 Weill'sunforgettable music - one of the earliest and most successful attemptsto introduce jazz to the theatre - it became a popular hit throughoutthe western world.
The text is presented in the trusted translation by Ralph Manheim and John Willett.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

A major dramatist of the twentieth century, Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
was the founder of one of the most influential theatre companies, the
Berliner Ensemble, and the creator of some of the landmark plays of the
twentieth century: The Threepenny Opera, Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. His plays and dramatic theory are central to the study of modern theatre.

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Verlag
A&C Black
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
041377452X
ISBN 13 
9780413774521
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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