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John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. [2] He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera . [ 3 ] The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.
John Gay (born June 30, 1685, Barnstaple, Devon, Eng.—died Dec. 4, 1732, London) was an English poet and dramatist, chiefly remembered as the author of The Beggar’s Opera, a work distinguished by good-humoured satire and technical assurance.
The Beggar's Opera [1] is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch.It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today. Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the conventions of opera, but without recitative.The lyrics of the airs in the piece are set to popular broadsheet ballads, opera arias, church hymns and ...
Poet and playwright John Gay was born in Devon to an aristocratic though impoverished family. Unable to afford university, Gay went to London to apprentice as a draper instead.
Jun 27, 2018 · John Gay >The English playwright and poet John Gay (1685-1732) is best known for "The >Beggar's Opera," a skillful blend of literary, political, social, and >musical satire. John Gay was born on June 30, 1685, in Barnstaple, Devonshire.
John Gay, (born, June 30, 1685, Barnstaple, Devon, Eng.—died Dec. 4, 1732, London), British poet and dramatist. From an ancient but impoverished Devonshire family, Gay was apprenticed to a silk mercer in London but was released early. He soon cofounded the journal The British Apollo.
Apr 13, 2008 · The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Beggar's Opera, by John Gay This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
The Beggar’s Opera, a ballad opera in three acts by John Gay, performed at Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre, London, in 1728 and published in the same year. The work combines comedy and political satire in prose interspersed with songs set to contemporary and traditional English, Irish, Scottish, and French tunes.
Jan 2, 2005 · John Gay's reputation as a writer has always suffered from his having been part of an extraordinary satirical quintet, the Scriblerus Club, which met in the spring of 1714 and included the two indisputably greatest satirists of the period, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) and Alexander Pope (1688-1744).
John Gay was an English poet and dramatist. Born at Barnstaple in Devon, Gay was raised by his uncle after the death of his parents. He was apprenticed to a silk merchant, but disliked the work and started to write and publish poetry.
