{"product_id":"the-threepenny-opera","title":"The Threepenny Opera","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Threepenny Opera\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eEric; Brecht, Bertolt; Vesey, Desmond; Bentley\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0394174720\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eGrove Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1964\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e110\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\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\n\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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"The Threepenny Opera | Eric; Brecht, Bertolt; Vesey, Desmond; Bentley | Paperback | 0394174720 | Used: Like New | Drama 1699421","offer_id":50823527432450,"sku":"1699421","price":26.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/714AfjeNZhL.jpg?v=1792566626","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/the-threepenny-opera","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}