The beggar's opera
By: Vaclav Havel ; translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson ; introduction by Peter Steiner.
Contributors: Wilson, Paul R. 1941-; Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
Description: "The Beggar's Opera is a free-wheeling, highly politicized adaptation of John Gay's well-known eighteenth-century work of the same name. The play, reminiscent of Havel's earlier Garden Party and The Memorandum, is up to his best satirical standard. Like the Brecht/Weill Threepenny Opera, Havel's play uses an underworld milieu to explore the intermingled themes of love, loyalty, and treachery."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Based on: The Beggar's opera by John Gay.