- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (27 July 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140180370
- ISBN-13: 978-0140180374
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 941,316 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Two centuries after the first performance of John Gay's Beggar's Opera, Bertolt Brecht adapted it to his own purposes, producing the highly successful Threepenny Opera and later, Threepenny Novel. Gay's characters are all here - Polly Peachum, MacHeath (Mac the Knife) and Jenny - but the time is around 1900, London is a sordid Dickensian city and the crooked deals involve Boer War munitions supply.
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If you are a fan of Dickens, you should read this book, which adds an extra dimension by examining with a critical eye the amoral capitalist society of the time. You have to have a very dry sense of humour to enjoy it but it is worthwhile. Brecht looks at industries such as banking and retail and lampoons the owners and managers, to hilarious effect. All I know about Brecht is in the introduction of the book, which suggests he was a Communist. If he expected to convert readers against capitalism, he failed spectacularly in my case. I eagerly followed the fortunes of the industrial antiheros, such as Mac the Knife, the murderer-cum-retailer. This is Dickens with extra meat. Recommended.
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