Captain Macheath is a fictional character who appears both in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, its sequel Polly and roughly 200 years later in Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera.
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Captain Macheath - Origins
... Macheath made his first appearance in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera as a chivalrous highwayman ... He was probably inspired in part by Jack Sheppard who, like Macheath, escaped from prison and enjoyed the affections of a prostitute, and despised violence ... work, keeps an account book of unproductive thieves (something that Macheath himself does in Bertolt Brecht's work) ...
... Macheath made his first appearance in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera as a chivalrous highwayman ... He was probably inspired in part by Jack Sheppard who, like Macheath, escaped from prison and enjoyed the affections of a prostitute, and despised violence ... work, keeps an account book of unproductive thieves (something that Macheath himself does in Bertolt Brecht's work) ...
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