THA 3309 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Profit Motive, Kleist Prize, Bertolt Brecht
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For the following terms, define the person or thing, then tell me what influence it had on the development of brecht and his ideas: Read w/g 379-380 and both brecht essays in gerould for thursday 31 mar. Drums in the night this play was by bertolt brecht, and in 1922 it was awarded the kleist prize, one of. This a(cid:374)d o(cid:374)e of his earlier pla(cid:455)s (cid:449)ere (cid:272)o(cid:374)sidered e(cid:454)pressio(cid:374)isti(cid:272). The threepenny opera written by brecht and kurt weill, it was the modern version of the beggar"s. The plot has to do with a group of lowlife figures in victorian england. Several songs from this piece became well known. Peachum, the boss of a gang of underworld beggars who pose as disabled people. Macheath, a swashbuckling burglar who marries peachums daughter polly. Kurt weill he was a composer and a friend of brechts, and he helped brecht write the threepenny.
