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John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names. Early life.
On Monday May 7 1945, news of Germany’s surrender spread through the London streets. “Gaiety began to invade people at about 3pm,” John S Barrington, a physique photographer, wrote in his ...
Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln, out in theaters Sept. 6, aims to be the definitive documentary about Lincoln’s sexuality, featuring excerpts of loaded language in letters ...
John Gay — ‘Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it.’
WATCH: OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN'S DAUGHTER SAYS ‘DARK SIDE’ OF FAME LED TO LIFELONG STRUGGLES. "I've struggled with being a chameleon my whole life," she added. "I wanted to make everyone happy. And ...
In this stand-alone group of nine images, Douglas stages scenes from the comic opera Polly, written in 1729 by the English dramatist John Gay, using the narrative as a vehicle through which to engage a wide range of themes that remain highly relevant today, including race, class, gender, and media.
Two women tell WIRED that when they were 18-year-old college freshmen, John McEntee, a former Trump administration official and cofounder of a Peter Thiel–backed dating app, behaved in ways they ...
