Poet and playwright John Gay was born Devon to an aristocratic though impoverished fay. Unable to afford universy, Gay went to London to…
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JOHN GAY
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 * john gay as an innovator in drama *
John Gay, (born June 30, 1685, Barnstaple, Devon, Eng. A member of an ancient but impoverished Devonshire fay, Gay was ted at the ee grammar school Barnstaple. Gay’s journalistic terts are clearly seen a pamphlet, The Prent State of W (1711), a survey of ntemporary perdil publitns.
JOHN GAY SUMMARY
John Gay, (born , June 30, 1685, Barnstaple, Devon, Eng.—died Dec. 4, 1732, London), Brish poet and dramatist. * john gay as an innovator in drama *
It is such lite probg of the surface of social life that Gay excels.
Gay was a member, together wh Pope, Jonathan Swift, and John Arbuthnot, of the Scribles Club, a lerary group that aimed to ridicule pedantry.
JOHN GAY
* john gay as an innovator in drama *
The iends ntributed to two of Gay’s satiril plays: The What D’ye Call It (1715) and Three Hours After Marriage (1717) most succsful play was The Beggar’s Opera, produced London on Jan. “Hont” John Gay lost most of his money through disastro vtment South Sea stock, but he nohels left £6, 000 when he died.
JOHN GAY OBUARY
John Gay, (born, June 30, 1685, Barnstaple, Devon, Eng. From an ancient but impoverished Devonshire fay, Gay was apprenticed to a silk mercer London but was released early.
Gay was buried Wtmster Abbey. 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.