Captain Macheath

Captain Macheath is a fictional character who appears both in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728), its sequel Polly (1777), and 150 years later in Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera (1928).[1]

Thomas Walker who created the role of Macheath in The Beggar's Opera, in character in a 1728 engraving
  1. ^ "Macheath Character Analysis". Litcharts.com. Retrieved April 30, 2022.