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The threepenny opera : with the author's notes and a foreword by Lotte Lenya ; English book by Desmond Vesey ; English lyrics by Eric Bentley
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The threepenny opera : with the author's notes and a foreword by Lotte Lenya ; English book by Desmond Vesey ; English lyrics by Eric Bentley
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Based on John Gay's eighteenth-century Beggar's Opera, the play is set in Victorian England's Soho but satirizes the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic through its wry love story of Polly Peachum and "Mack the Knife" Macheath.
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Authors
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
Bentley, Eric, 1916-
Vesey, Desmond Ivo
Subjects
German drama.
Plays.
Operas--Librettos.
Language
English
Dimensions
18 cm.