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Captain Macheath

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Captain Macheath is a fictional character who appears both in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728), its sequel Polly (1777), and roughly 200 years later in Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera. [1]

28 relations: A Chorus of Disapproval (film), Ballad opera, Benjamin Hick, Eddie Lawrence, Haydn Gwynne, Henry Liverseege, Highwayman, Imminent, Indeed, Isaac Darkin, Jack Sheppard, John Gay, Joseph Papp, Macavity, Mack the Knife, Mack the Knife (film), Margaret Kennedy (singer), Marylebone Gardens, Michael Redgrave, Peter Corry, Polly (opera), Rory Kinnear, The Beggar's Opera, The Distrest Poet, The Threepenny Opera, Thomas Walker (actor), Threepenny Novel, Tim Curry performances, 1777 in music.

A Chorus of Disapproval (film)

A Chorus of Disapproval is a 1989 British film adapted from the Alan Ayckbourn play of the same title, directed by Michael Winner.

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Ballad opera

The ballad opera is a genre of English stage entertainment that originated in the early 18th century, and continued to develop over the following century and later.

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Benjamin Hick

Benjamin Hick (1 August 1790 – 9 September 1842) was a successful English civil and mechanical engineer, art collector and patron; his improvements to the steam engine and invention of scientific tools were held in high esteem by the engineering profession, some of Hick's improvements became public property without claiming the patent rights he was entitled to.

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Eddie Lawrence

Eddie Lawrence (born Lawrence Eisler; March 2, 1919 – March 25, 2014) was an American monologist, actor, singer, lyricist, playwright, artist, director and television personality, whose unique comic creation, the eternally optimistic Old Philosopher, gained him a devoted cult following for over five decades.

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Haydn Gwynne

Haydn Gwynne (born 1957) is an English actress.

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Henry Liverseege

Henry Liverseege (4 September 1802 – 13 January 1832) was an English genre painter of literary and folklore subjects.

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Highwayman

A highwayman was a robber who stole from travellers.

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Imminent, Indeed

Imminent, Indeed (or Polly Peachum's Peculiar Penchant for Plosives) is a gothic adaptation of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera.

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Isaac Darkin

Isaac Darkin (also rendered as Darking), who also used the alias Dumas, was a notorious highwayman in the eighteenth century.

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Jack Sheppard

Jack Sheppard (4 March 1702 – 16 November 1724) was a notorious English thief and gaol-breaker of early 18th-century London.

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John Gay

John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club.

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Joseph Papp

Joseph "Joe" Papp (June 22, 1921 – October 31, 1991) was an American theatrical producer and director.

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Macavity

Macavity is a fictional character who is described in a poem in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, by T. S. Eliot.

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Mack the Knife

"Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" (later known as "Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife") is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama Die Dreigroschenoper, or, as it is known in English, The Threepenny Opera.

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Mack the Knife (film)

Mack the Knife is a 1989 New Zealand romantic comedy musical film written and directed by Menahem Golan and starring Raúl Juliá, Richard Harris, Julia Migenes, Roger Daltrey and Julie Walters.

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Margaret Kennedy (singer)

Margaret Kennedy (died 23 January 1793) was a contralto singer and actress.

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Marylebone Gardens

Marylebone Gardens or Marybone Gardens was a London pleasure garden sited in the grounds of the old manor house of Marylebone and frequented from the mid-17th century, when Marylebone was a village separated from London by fields and market gardens, to the third quarter of the 18th century.

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Michael Redgrave

Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave CBE (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English stage and film actor, director, manager, and author.

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Peter Corry

Peter Corry is a Northern Irish singer, director, producer and actor.

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Polly (opera)

Polly is a ballad opera with text by John Gay and music by Johann Christoph Pepusch.

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Rory Kinnear

Rory Michael Kinnear (born 17 February 1978) is an English actor and playwright who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre.

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The Beggar's Opera

The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch.

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The Distrest Poet

The Distrest Poet is an oil painting produced sometime around 1736 by the British artist William Hogarth.

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The Threepenny Opera

The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) is a "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, with music by Kurt Weill and insertion ballads by François Villon and Rudyard Kipling.

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Thomas Walker (actor)

Thomas Walker (1698–1744) was an English actor and dramatist.

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Threepenny Novel

ThreePenny Novel is a 1934 novel by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht, first published in Amsterdam by in 1934 as.

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Tim Curry performances

This article presents the theatre, film, audiobook and television credits of English actor Tim Curry, who has a diverse range of work in these media formats.

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1777 in music

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Macheath

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