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 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 (-5[1])of a womanizer’s (10[1])hanging at Newgate. The “ballad” form of this genre is exemplified by a work by John Gay featuring the thief (10[1])Mr. Peachum (-5[1])and the highwayman Macheath. (10[1])For 10 points, Bertolt Brecht adapted a “Beggar’s” work in what genre into a “Threepenny” one? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

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