The threepenny opera / Bertolt Brecht ; foreword by Nadine Gordimer ; introduction to the Penguin classics ed. by Norm Roessler ; translated and edited with an introduction by Ralph Manheim and John Willett.
2007
PT2603.R397 D7513 2007 (Mapit)
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The threepenny opera / Bertolt Brecht ; foreword by Nadine Gordimer ; introduction to the Penguin classics ed. by Norm Roessler ; translated and edited with an introduction by Ralph Manheim and John Willett.
Author
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956.
Uniform Title
Dreigroschenoper. English
ISBN
9780143105169 (pbk.)
0143105167 (pbk.)
0143105167 (pbk.)
Publication Details
New York : Penguin Books, 2007.
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from German.
Description
xlii, 129 p. ; 20
Call Number
PT2603.R397 D7513 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
832/.912
Summary
"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." -- Book cover.
Added Author
Manheim, Ralph, 1907-1992.
Willett, John, 1917-2002.
Willett, John, 1917-2002.
Series
Penguin classics.
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