The Threepenny Opera

by Brecht, Bertolt; Willett, John; Manheim, Ralph; Manheim, Ralph; Gordimer, Nadine; Roessler, Norman

• ISBN13: 9780143105169
• ISBN10: 0143105167
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-18
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

"The Threepenny Opera" is Bertolt Brecht's savage satire on the bourgeois Weimar Republic, and his most performed and studied play. Edited and translated by Ralph Manheim and John Willett, this student edition contains commentary, analysis and context, as well as the full text of the play. One of the major dramatists of the twentieth century, Bertolt Brecht's plays include "The Life of Galileo," "Mother Courage and her Children" and "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," He died in 1956.

Author Biography

Bertolt Brecht (1898-û1956) was one of the most influential playwrights of the twentieth century. Born in Augsburg, Bavaria, he fled Germany in 1933 when Hitler came to power. Returning to Germany after the war, he founded the Berliner Ensemble and continued to work on plays and films.
Nadine Gordimer is the author of more than twelve novels as well as collections of stories and essays. She has received many awards, including the Booker Prize (for The Conservationist in 1974) and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991.
Norman Roessler is editor of Communications, the performance journal of the International Brecht Society, and is a lecturer at Temple University in Philadelphia.
John Willett (1917-û2002) is a scholar and translator of several works by Bertolt Brecht into English.
Ralph Manheim (1907-û1992) is a translator of works by Bertolt Brecht, Hermann Hesse, G++nter Grass, and many others.