The Beggar's Opera

by Václav Havel, Paul R. Wilson, John Gay

The Czech President Vaclav Havel, a force on behalf of international human rights and his country's most celebrated dissident, first gained prominence as a playwright. During the period when Havel was blacklisted by the Czechoslovakian government for his political activism, productions of his work in and around Prague were regarded as subversive acts. The Beggar's Opera is a free-wheeling, highly politicized adaptation of John Gay's well-known...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801438330
• ISBN13: 9780801438332
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher