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The Threepenny Opera
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Elisabeth Hauptmann, Anja Hartl, John Willett, Ralph Manheim
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The Threepenny Opera
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Elisabeth Hauptmann, Anja Hartl, John Willett, Ralph Manheim
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One of Bertolt Brecht's best-loved and most performed plays, The Threepenny Opera was first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble). Based on the eighteenth-century The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, the play is a satire on the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. With 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. This new edition is published here in John Willett and Ralph Manhein's classic translation with commentary and notes by Anja Hartl.
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The Threepenny Opera
after John Gay: The Beggarâs Opera
Collaborators: Elisabeth Hauptmann, Kurt Weill
Translators: Ralph Manheim, John Willett
Characters
Macheath, called Mac the Knife
Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum, proprietor of the Beggarâs Friend Ltd
Celia Peachum, his wife
Polly Peachum, his daughter
Brown, High Sheriff of London
Lucy, his daughter
Low-Dive Jenny
Smith
Reverend Kimball
Filch
Ballad Singer
Gang
Beggars
Whores
Constables
Prologue: The Ballad of Mac the Knife
Fair in Soho.
The beggars are begging, the thieves are stealing, the whores are whoring. A Ballad Singer sings a ballad:
See the shark with teeth like razors.
All can read his open face.
And Macheath has got a knife, but
Not in such an obvious place.
See the shark, how red his fins are
As he slashes at his prey.
Mac the Knife wears white kid gloves which
Give the minimum away.
By the Thamesâs turbid waters
Men abruptly tumble down.
Is it plague or is it cholera?
Or a sign Macheathâs in town?
On a beautiful blue Sunday
See a corpse stretched in the Strand.
See a man dodge round the cornerâŠ
Mackieâs friends will understand.
And Schmul Meier, reported missing
Like so many wealthy men:
Mac the Knife acquired his cash box.
God alone knows how or when.
Peachum goes walking across the stage from left to right with his wife and daughter.
Jenny Towler turned up lately
With a knife stuck through her breast
While Macheath walks the Embankment
Nonchalantly unimpressed.
Where is Alfred Gleet the cabman?
Who can get that story clear?
All the world may know the answer
Just Macheath has no idea.
And the ghastly fire in Soho â
Seven children at a go â
In the crowd stands Mac the Knife, but he
Isnât asked and doesnât know.
And the child-bride in her nightie
Whose assailantâs still at large
Violated in her slumbers â
Mackie, how much did you charge?
Laughter among the Whores. A man steps out from their midst and walks quickly away across the square.
Low-Dive Jenny That was Mac the Knife!
Act One
Scene One
To combat the increasing callousness of mankind, J. Peachum, a man of business, has opened a shop where the poorest of the poor can acquire an exterior that will touch the hardest of hearts.
Jonathan Jeremiah Peachamâs outfitting shop for beggars.
Peachumâs Morning Hymn
You ramshackle Christian, awake!
Get on with your sinful employment
Show what a good crook you could make.
The Lord will cut short your enjoyment.
Betray your own brother, you rogue
And sell your old woman, you rat.
You think the Lord Godâs just a joke?
Heâll give you His Judgement on that.
Peachum (to the audience) Something new is needed. My business is too hard, for my business is arousing human sympathy. There are a few things that stir menâs souls, just a few, but the trouble is that after repeated use they lose their effect. Because man has the abominable gift of being able to deaden his feelings at will, so to speak. Suppose, for instance, a man sees another man standing on the corner with a stump for an arm; the first time he may be shocked enough to give him tenpence, but the second time it will only be fivepence, and if he sees him a third time heâll hand him over to the police without batting an eyelash. Itâs the same with the spiritual approach. (A large sign saying âIt is more blessed to give than to receiveâ is lowered from the grid.) What good are the most beautiful, the most poignant sayings, painted on the most enticing little signs, when they get expended so quickly? The Bible has four or five sayings that stir the heart; once a man has expended them, thereâs nothing for it but starvation. Take this one, for instance â âGive and it shall be given unto youâ â how threadbare it is after hanging here a mere three weeks. Yes, you have to keep on offering something new. So itâs back to the good old Bible again, but how long can it go on providing?
Knocking. Peachum opens. Enter a young man by the name of Filch.
Filch Messrs Peachum & Co.?
Peachum Peachum.
Filch Are you the proprietor of The Beggarâs Friend Ltd? Iâve been sent to you. Fine slogans youâve got there! Money in the bank, those are. Got a whole library full of them, I suppose? Thatâs what I call really something. What chance has a bloke like me got to think up ideas like that; and how can business progress without education?
Peachum Whatâs your name?
Filch Itâs this way, Mr Peachum, Iâve been down on my luck since a boy. Mother drank, father gambled. Left to my own resources at an early age, without a motherâs tender hand, I sank deeper and deeper into the quicksands of the big city. Iâve never known a fatherâs care or the blessing...
Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Chronology
- Introduction
- The Threepenny Opera
- Interview with Playwright Simon Stephens
- Notes
- Note by Kurt Weill
- Notes by Bertolt Brecht
- Copyright
Normes de citation pour The Threepenny Opera
APA 6 Citation
Brecht, B., Weill, K., & Hauptmann, E. (2022). The Threepenny Opera (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3114237/the-threepenny-opera-pdf (Original work published 2022)
Chicago Citation
Brecht, Bertolt, Kurt Weill, and Elisabeth Hauptmann. (2022) 2022. The Threepenny Opera. 1st ed. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.perlego.com/book/3114237/the-threepenny-opera-pdf.
Harvard Citation
Brecht, B., Weill, K. and Hauptmann, E. (2022) The Threepenny Opera. 1st edn. Bloomsbury Publishing. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3114237/the-threepenny-opera-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).
MLA 7 Citation
Brecht, Bertolt, Kurt Weill, and Elisabeth Hauptmann. The Threepenny Opera. 1st ed. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.