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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JOHN GAY
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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.
Through Hill, Gay was exposed to London’s lerary circl, where he ma the acquatance of such celebrated wrers as Alexanr Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve and Dr. Gay began his wrg reer as a poet and ballad-lyric wrer. However, Gay's first real succs me wh the 1714 play, The Shepherd’s Week.
” In 1716, Gay llaborated wh Pope and Arbuthnot on an unsuccsful farce, Three Hours After Marriage.