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John Gay would probably be remembered today as a mor English poet were not for The Beggar's Opera. Sthgly satiric, groundbreakgly origal, and ordately popular, stantly ma Gay one….
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Even today, Gay is bt remembered for The Beggar's Opera, and that masterwork still retas all s power. Gay attend grammar school as soon as he was old enough, but his parents had both died by 1695, and an uncle took him until 1702. In 1708, however, Gay met Alexanr Pope, the greatt poet of his day, and began publishg.
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Soon he was a member of a famo clique of satirists, the "Mart Scribles Club, " prisg not only Gay and Pope, but Jonathan Swift and Dr.
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While most of Gay's output was the form of satiric poems and says, he wrote stage works and ballads as well. He found himself volved wh London's operatic muny when no ls a poser than Ge Frieric Hanl wrote Acis and Galatea g Gay's libretto; was Hanl's first sre for an English libretto. Gay had vented the "ballad opera" form, which spoken dialogue is bed wh popular melodi, and at the same time produced an outrageo satire which crimaly and vice are celebrated, perhaps not wholly ironilly.
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Even Gay's iends were not sure of s mer, and Gay had difficulty gettg staged.
The Beggar's Opera was first performed on January 29, 1728, and Gay was soon a very famo and rich man.
The opera ntaed attacks on opera self (Hanl's opera Raldo was raid for a heroic march which the thiev sg jt before settg out for an eveng of robbery), English jurispnce, and nventnal ias of moraly; Gay's not-very-subtle attacks on Horace Walpole and his ernment, however, were what ed Walpole to ban Gay's sequel to The Beggar's Opera, Polly. Gay posed one more ballad opera, Achill, but too was unsuccsful mercially and artistilly.