Round 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 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 were written by Henry Fielding and titled for (*) Wales and Grub Street. Elisabeth Hauptmann translated a work titled for this genre (10[1])that ends with the reprieve of a womanizer’s hanging at Newgate. The “ballad” form of this genre is exemplified by a work by John Gay featuring the thief (10[1]-5[1])Mr. Peachum (10[1])and the highwayman (10[1])Macheath. For 10 points, Bertolt Brecht adapted a “Beggar’s” work in what genre into a “Threepenny” one? ■END■ (10[1])

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