The Threepenny Opera (Penguin Classics)
by Bertolt Brecht
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Author: Bertolt BrechtEditor: Ralph Manheim
Translator: Ralph Manheim
Translator: John Willett
Introduction: Norman Roessler
Foreword: Nadine Gordimer
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-12-18
ISBN: 0143105167
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: On The Threepenny Opera
Summary: 5 Stars
Bawdy, facetious, and unapologetically bleeding hearted, The Threepenny Opera is Bertolt Brecht's most playful and accessible critique of Western society.
Summary of The Threepenny Opera (Penguin Classics)
Brutal, scandalous, perverted, yet humorous, hummable, and with a happy ending- Bertolt Brecht's revolutionary masterpiece The Threepenny Opera is a landmark of modern drama that has become embedded in the Western cultural imagination. Through the love story of Polly Peachum and "Mack the Knife" Macheath, the play satirizes the bourgeois of the Weimar Republic, revealing a society at the height of decadence and on the verge of chaos. Complemented with music by Kurt Weill, it was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz into the theater, and the song "Mack the Knife" became one of the most popular and widely recorded songs of the twentieth century.Continental European Books
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