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“The Threepenny Opera and Mother Courage are the great plays of our time.”
—Lillian Hellman --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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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. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Arcade Publishing; 1st Arcade pbk. ed edition (August 1, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1559702524
ISBN-13: 978-1559702522
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.7 ounces

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2.0 out of 5 stars A rather boring translation of the great Dreigroschenoper, March 1, 1999

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One has to know and understand the original German text of the Dreigroschenoper to be really able to judge the quality of the English translations. This one, used among others by Helen Schneider on her album with Weill songs, has nothing of the sarcasms of the German lyrics. Better read the 1954 translation of Marc Blitzstein or the translation made by Frank McGuinness in the early 1990s.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the best translation to capture Brecht's intentions, March 18, 1998

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Of all the translations on the market, this one is the best -- most are watered-down, tepid versions. Manheim & Willet's was used in the late 1970's revival of the piece by the New York Shakespeare Festival, which starred the late Raul Julia and Ellen Greene (of "Little Shop of Horrors" fame, in the role originally intended for Lotte Lenya).

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5.0 out of 5 stars On The Threepenny Opera, February 9, 2009

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Bawdy, facetious, and unapologetically bleeding hearted, The Threepenny Opera is Bertolt Brecht's most playful and accessible critique of Western society.

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5.0 out of 5 stars AN IMPORTANT LESSON IN OUR AGE OF CORRUPT GLOBALIZATION AND "FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS"
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The Threepenny Opera is so well known and sought after (without many taking the time seriously to study it) that it can be pricey here on... Read more

Published 12 months ago by C. Scanlon

5.0 out of 5 stars The Truest transaltion
It is also the best, gutteral and earthy, this transaltion had audiences and critics cheering in 1977. So why is the recording re-release on CD being blocked by the Weill Estate?

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4.0 out of 5 stars IN THE MATTER OF ONE MAC THE KNIFE
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