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

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