Book: The Threepenny Opera Brutal, scandalous, perverted, yet humorous, hummable, and with a happy endingaBertolt Brechtas 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 aMack the Knifea 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 aMack the Knifea became one of the most popular and widely recorded songs of the twentieth century.
Details of Book: The Threepenny Opera Book: The Threepenny Opera
Author: Bertolt Bretch, Bertolt Brecht, Brecht
ISBN: 080215039X
ISBN-13: 9780802150394
, 978-0802150394
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 1964/06/01
Publisher: Grove Press
Number of Pages: 128
Language: English