{"product_id":"the-threepenny-opera-9781350205284","title":"The Threepenny Opera","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of Bertolt Brecht's best-loved and most performed plays, \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Opera \u003c\/i\u003ewas first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on the eighteenth-century \u003ci\u003eThe Beggar's Opera\u003c\/i\u003e by John Gay, the play is a satire on the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith Kurt Weill's music, which was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce the jazz idiom into the theatre, it became a popular hit throughout the western world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new edition is published here in John Willett and Ralph Manhein's classic translation with commentary and notes by Anja Hartl.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBertolt Brecht \u003c\/b\u003e(1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and writing have had a considerable influence on the theatre. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Willett\u003c\/b\u003e (1917-2002) was the greatest English-language authority on Brecht. The foremost translator and editor of Brecht's drama, poetry, letters, diaries, theatrical essays and fiction, Willett produced a dozen volumes for Methuen Drama on the greatest modern German writer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Manheim\u003c\/b\u003e (1907-1992) was an American translator of German and French literature. In collaboration with John Willett, Manheim translated the works of Bertolt Brecht. The Pen\/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, inaugurated in his name, is a major lifetime achievement award in the field of translation. He himself won its predecessor, the PEN translation prize, in 1964. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnja Hartl\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor at the Department of Literature, Art and Media Studies at the University of Konstanz, Germany. She has published essays on contemporary British theatre, Brecht and Shakespearean adaptation. Her research focuses on political theatre, adaptation studies, Shakespeare and Victorian fiction. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBrecht and Post-1990s British Drama \u003c\/i\u003ein the Methuen Drama Engage series.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50520663130386,"sku":"9781350205284","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1dd0e510-d0fb-4759-9409-de9189f99f57.jpg?v=1731088510","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-threepenny-opera-9781350205284","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}