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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Beggar's Opera"”.
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Elisabeth Hauptmann: Brecht's silent collaborator
… version, and her translation of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, which resulted in Brecht's most famous play, Die Dreigroschenoper. Her work on Happy End prepared the way for Brecht's Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthofe. Less well-known is her prose, similar in style to Brecht's, her adaptations …
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Die Zauberflöte: A European Singspiel
… and native styles, an amalgam of European opera and culture was realized in the Singspiel.</p> <p>The distinctive qualities that make this form of staged drama so unique can be understood within the context of European opera in the early eighteenth century. "Opera," according to the New …
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Satire's Liminal Space: The Conservative Function of Eighteenth-Century Satiric Drama
<p>The eighteenth century is famous for producing literary satire, primarily in verse (and later prose) form. However, during this period, a new dramatic form also arose of which satire was the controlling element. And like the writers of prose and verse satires, playwrights of dramatic satire …