贝尔托·布莱希特：三毛钱歌剧 英文原版 Bertolt Brecht:The Threepenny Opera

基本信息

By (author) Bertolt Brecht 

Illustrated by Ralph Manheim , John Willett

Format Paperback | 144 pages

Dimensions 129 x 198 x 9mm | 123g

Publication date 24 Apr 2008

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint METHUEN DRAMA

Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom

Language English

Edition Statement Reprint

ISBN10 0413390306

ISBN13 9780413390301

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

布莱希特早期戏剧代表作。故事发生在20世纪20年代英国伦敦，麦克是强盗头子，商人皮彻姆掌握着全城乞丐的命运。麦克和皮彻姆的女儿波丽秘密结婚。皮彻姆把女儿看作自己的资本，觉得损失巨大，便向官方检举麦克。警察局长虽与麦克交情特殊，但迫于压力还是将他逮捕了。皮彻姆胁迫乞丐们在女王加冕典礼上游行，逼警察局长处死麦克。麦克准备用金钱换取自由，但他的妻子波丽和那些强盗兄弟们都更看重金钱，没有人愿意救他，麦克命悬一线。

Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. It focuses on the feud between Macheaf - an amoral criminal - and his father in law, a racketeer who controls and exploits London's beggars and is intent on having Macheaf hanged. Despite the resistance by Macheaf's friend the Chief of Police, Macheaf is eventually condemned to hang until in a comic reversal the queen pardons him and grants him a title and land.

With Kurt Weill's unforgettable music - one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz to the theatre - it became a popular hit throughout the western world. Published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series in a trusted translation by Ralph Manheim and John Willett, this edition features extensive notes and commentary including an introduction to the play, Brecht's own notes on the play, a full appendix of textual variants, a note by composer Kurt Weill, a transcript of a discussion about the play between Brecht and a theatre director, plus editorial notes on the genesis of the play.

作者简介

贝托尔特·布莱希特（1898-1956），德国剧作家、戏剧导演、诗人，二十世纪享有世界声誉的戏剧家。一八九八年生于奥格斯堡，一九三三年离开纳粹德国流亡丹麦、瑞典、芬兰等地，一九四一至一九四七年移居美国，一九四七年底返回欧洲，一九四九年起定居东柏林。创作大量戏剧、诗歌及散文作品，代表作有戏剧《三毛钱歌剧》、《伽利略传》、《大胆妈妈和她的孩子们》、《四川好人》和《高加索灰阑记》等。

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose work has had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include Mother Courage and Her Children, The Threepenny Opera, Life of Galileo, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.Circle. His plays and dramatic theory are central to the study of modern theatre.