Captain Macheath
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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] Even though written "Macheath", the name is pronounced as if it were "MacHeath".