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The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera
Author: Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill
The Threepenny Opera -- which takes place in a sooty, smoky Victorian England, Soho to be exact --  is a musical theater masterpiece that grew out of its writers' experience of Weimar Germany between the World Wars. The darkly humorous, anarchic and gritty musical with its array of colorful characters (including "Mack, the...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780802150394
ISBN-10: 080215039X
Publication Date: 1/11/1994
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Publisher: Grove Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Heres Mack the Knife and his world of murderers, thieves, harlots, and beggars. Youll recognize the opening song, but not necessarily the lyrics. Brecht, it has been said, was adept at mimicking the work of other artists: in this case, John Gays The Beggars Opera (ca. 1727). Some 200 years later, The Threepenny Opera became popular in England in the late 1920s. In the US, it was regurgitated in the 1960s. If you are to read this, you should first read The Beggars Opera.


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