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Captain Macheath
Fictional opera character / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Captain Macheath is a fictional character who appears both in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728), its sequel Polly (1777), and 200 years later in Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera (1928).[1]
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