The Threepenny OperaVintage Books, 1977 - 81 Seiten Polly Peachum and 'Mac the Knife' Macheath, a career criminal, have a rocky relationship, considering how Mac may be already married and Polly's father, a racketeer who controls and exploits London's beggars, would like to see Mac hanged. Based on John Gay's eighteenth-century Beggar's Opera, it is set in Victorian England's Soho at the time of Queen Victoria's coronation but satirizes the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic. |
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Ballade Beggar's Opera beggars Bertolt Brecht Bill Lawgen boys cage Captain constables Cooch Behar Coronation Crook-fingered Jake Cuttlefish Hotel daughter door eating ERIC WILLIAMS feel FILCH filthy gentlemen girl give goes golden glow hanged happy harpsichord head heart Jackie JIMMY JIMMY rushes JOHN RIDGE Jonathan keeps mankind alive kid gloves ladies lamps are lowered late The world laughs London look Low-Dive Jenny LUCY Mac the Knife Macheath Mackie Mackie's madam man's a shit married MATTHEW Médoc never nice Old Bailey organ is lit Outfit police pounds Queen Ralph Manheim Scotland Yard Sexual obsession sheriff Shut your trap signs say sing sitting slut SMITH Soho Song lighting stand stiff upper lip Suky Tawdry tell Thank there's thing Three lamps Threepenny Opera Tiger Brown Turnbridge WALTER wedding What's whores wife world is poor