The Rise and Fall of the City of MahagonnyWelcome to Mahagonny, where sin is 'in' and love is always on sale. This Old West boomtown rises from the desert to become a razzle-dazzle mecca for lust and the pursuit of pleasure, where cash is king and poverty is punishable by death. |
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Auden's first play , Paid on Both Sides ( 1928 ) , draws upon two traditions — the native English mummers play ( or more generally , medieval drama ) and Icelandic saga — which always fascinated him and continued to appear in his later ...
Auden's first play , Paid on Both Sides ( 1928 ) , draws upon two traditions — the native English mummers play ( or more generally , medieval drama ) and Icelandic saga — which always fascinated him and continued to appear in his later ...
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from Jimmy's trial to his execution , but the translators are surely correct in keeping such a splendid piece though they have modified Brecht's pidgin English to harmonize it with a totally English rather than largely German text .
from Jimmy's trial to his execution , but the translators are surely correct in keeping such a splendid piece though they have modified Brecht's pidgin English to harmonize it with a totally English rather than largely German text .
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The version printed in Delos reads as follows : a This is a translation , not of a verse drama , but of an opera libretto : the English versification conforms to the notes of Kurt Weill's music . In some cases , this has involved ...
The version printed in Delos reads as follows : a This is a translation , not of a verse drama , but of an opera libretto : the English versification conforms to the notes of Kurt Weill's music . In some cases , this has involved ...
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