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The threepenny opera by Bertolt Brecht ; translated by Ralph Manheim and John Willett ; edited and introduced by John Willett and Ralph Manheim. (WIPA)

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-19562000
Books, Manuscripts
First staged in Berlin in 1928, The Threepenny Opera remains one of Brecht's most performed plays. Based on John Gay's 18th century satire, The Beggar's Opera, the play is a satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic.
Imprint:
London : Methuen Drama, 2000.
Collation:
xviii, 124p. ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
This translation originally published: 1979.Translation of: Die Dreigoschenoper.
ISBN:
9780413390301 (pbk)
Dewey class:
832.912832.912BRE832.91
Local class:
832.912Br
Language:
English
BRN:
379293
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