Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 041377452X, Paperback)

The Threepenny Opera is Bertolt Brecht's savage satire on the bourgeois Weimar Republic, and his most performed and studied play. Edited and translated by Ralph Manheim and John Willett, this student edition contains commentary, analysis and context, as well as the full text of the play.

One of the major dramatists of the twentieth century, Bertolt Brecht's plays include The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. He died in 1956.