Packet 2: Tossup 21

In a work in this genre, a man claims of a love triangle, “How happy could I be with either, were the other dear charmer away.” Alan Ayckbourn’s play about the widower Guy Jones incorporates that work in this genre, whose success inspired (15[1])later works in this genre (-5[1])like The Devil to Pay and Isaac Bickerstaffe’s Love in a Village. A pair of works titled for this genre and credited to Sciblerus Secundus (-5[1])were written by Henry Fielding and titled for (*) Wales and Grub (10[1])Street. Elisabeth Hauptmann translated a work titled for this genre (10[1])that ends with the reprieve (10[1]-5[1])of a womanizer’s (10[2])hanging at Newgate. (10[1])The “ballad” (-5[1])form of this genre (-5[1])is exemplified by a work by John Gay (10[1])featuring the thief (10[4]-5[1])Mr. (10[1])Peachum (10[3]-5[1])and the highwayman (10[1])Macheath. (10[5])For 10 points, Bertolt Brecht adapted a “Beggar’s” work in what genre into a “Threepenny” one? (10[1])■END■ (10[5])

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