John Gay, (born , June 30, 1685, Barnstaple, Devon, Eng.—died Dec. 4, 1732, London), Brish poet and dramatist.
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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 barnstaple *
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
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’S THE BEGGAR’S OPERA
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, (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. John Gay belonged to the Scribles Club – a aln of like-md anti-Enlightenment novelists, poets, playwrights and policians who railed agast the vani of morn tellectual life and culture the early 18th century. John Gay was almost certaly fluenced by his close iends Pope and Swift; wh s st of crooks and n artists, The Beggar’s Opera is a satire on the pretensns, self-terts and double standards of 18th century society – and a jolly good romp to boot.