'Gamters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whor, but they are very Devils to their Wiv.' Wh The Beggar's Opera (1728), John Gay created one of the most endurgly popular works English theatre history, and vented a new dramatic form, the ballad opera.
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POLLY PEACHUM, A ‘MOL OF VIRTUE’? QUTNS OF MORALY JOHN GAY'S POLLYPOLLY PEACHUM, A ‘MOL OF VIRTUE’? QUTNS OF MORALY JOHN GAY'S POLLYPOLLY PEACHUM, A ‘MOL OF VIRTUE’? QUTNS OF MORALY JOHN GAY'S POLLYPOLLY PEACHUM, A ‘MOL OF VIRTUE’? QUTNS OF MORALY JOHN GAY'S POLLYPOLLY PEACHUM, A ‘MOL OF VIRTUE’? QUTNS OF MORALY JOHN GAY'S POLLY
Other articl where Polly is discsed: John Gay: The productn of s sequel, Polly, was forbidn by the lord chamberla (doubtls on Walpole’s stctns); but the ban was an excellent advertisement for the piece, and subscriptns for pi of the prted edn ma more than £1,000 prof for the thor. (It was eventually produced 1777, when … * john gay polly *
Learn about this topic the articl:discsed bgraphy In John GayThe productn of s sequel, Polly, was forbidn by the lord chamberla (doubtls on Walpole’s stctns); but the ban was an excellent advertisement for the piece, and subscriptns for pi of the prted edn ma more than £1, 000 prof for the thor. John Gay Eded by Hal Gladfelr.
The only edn to be The Beggar's Opera wh s sequel, Polly, allowg to see the full spe of Gay's theatril and moral visn. Introductn nsirs Gay's e of crimal and rogue lerature, the polil ntext of the plays, Gay's attu to slavery and piracy, his treatment of genr, and the plays' formal theatril novatns. Text clost of any current edn to the plays as seen through the prs by Gay himself, retag exprsive featur that nvey the rhythms and pace of their first performanc.
Appendix on the sourc of the tun Gay ed for the 69 airs of The Beggar's Opera and the 71 of Polly, highlightg many s where the songs' origal words, faiar to ntemporary dienc, give a bawdy or ironic double meang to Gay's lyrics. Explanatory Not expla crimal and unrworld slang and the topil allns that gave Gay's satire s edge.
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Poet and playwright John Gay was born Devon to an aristocratic though impoverished fay. Unable to afford universy, Gay went to London to apprentice as a draper stead. By 1714, Gay had started rrpondg wh Alexanr Pope and bee a member of the Scribles Club, a group that clud Jonathan Swift, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, and Lord Oxford.