Bertolt Brecht follows the general outline of English playwright John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (1728), but focuses more on social evils in The Threepenny Opera.
What was the source of Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera (1928)?
by Pamela Landy · Filed Under: Literature
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