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The threepenny opera /

"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 "Mac...

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Main Authors: Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
Group Author: Manheim, Ralph, 1907-1992; Willett, John, 1917
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Literature type: Book
Language: English
German
Series: Penguin classics
Subjects:
Brecht, Bertolt, > 1898-1956. > Dreigroschenoper
Dreigroschenoper Brecht, Bertolt
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
Carrier Form: xliii, 129 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN: 9780143105169 (pbk.) :
0143105167 (pbk.)
Index Number: PT2603
CLC: I516.065
Call Number: I516.065/B829

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