John Gay, English poet and dramatist, chiefly remembered as the thor of The Beggar’s Opera, a work distguished by good-humoured satire and technil assurance. A member of an ancient but impoverished Devonshire fay, Gay was ted at the ee grammar school Barnstaple. He was
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Dramatist and poet John Gay had a prolific and succsful wrg reer 18th century London, but is bt known for his tour--force satiril play, The Beggar's Opera. Gay was born to a proment Devonshire fay 1685.