John Gay: A Profsn of Friendship: A Cril Bgraphy. By David Nok. Oxford: Clarendon Prs, 1995. Pp. xvi + 563 + ill. £25. - Volume 21 Issue 1
Contents:
- JOHN GAY
- THE LETTERS OF JOHN GAY
- JOHN GAY
- THE LETTERS OF JOHN GAY
- JOHN GAY: A PROFSN OF FRIENDSHIP: A CRIL BGRAPHY. BY DAVID NOK. OXFORD: CLARENDON PRS, 1995. PP. XVI + 563 + ILL. £25.
- JOHN GAY 1685–1732 ENGLISH POET AND DRAMATIST
- TRYG TO UNRSTAND THE ENGLISH GAYS AT OXFORD
JOHN GAY
A scholarly edn of the letters of John Gay. The edn prents an thorative text, together wh an troductn, mentary not, and scholarly apparat. * john gay oxford *
Graduatg as a geographer, John Gay unrtook theologil trag and a doctorate the geography of relign at Oxford.
THE LETTERS OF JOHN GAY
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A scholarly edn of the letters of John Gay.
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.
JOHN GAY
'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. * john gay oxford *
Gay’s publitns datg om this time clu the poems Trivia: Or, the Art of Walkg the Streets of London (1716) and The Shepherd’s Week (1714).
The Scribles Club fluenced Gay’s major plays of this perd, The What D’Ye Call It (1715) and Three Hours After Marriage (1717), which was equently lked to Pope.
THE LETTERS OF JOHN GAY
Defn of john-gay Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictnary. Meang, pronunciatn, picture, example sentenc, grammar, age not, synonyms and more. * john gay oxford *
Gay was more or ls pennt on patronage his whole life and lived var semi-employed stat wh a number of aristocrats. Though relyg on the generosy of patrons such as the Duchs of Queensberry, Gay also earned money om his plays, pecially The Beggar’s Opera (1728), which enjoyed unprecented succs.
Allegedly satirizg then-prime mister Sir Robert Walpole, Gay’s play gaed notoriety and ma stagg s sequel, Polly, impossible until 1777. The Beggar’s Opera was some ways the culmatn of Gay’s reer. Pope was a pallbearer and ntributed an epaph to Gay’s memorial.
Above are Gay’s own words: “Life is a jt; and all thgs show / I thought so once; but now I know .”.
JOHN GAY: A PROFSN OF FRIENDSHIP: A CRIL BGRAPHY. BY DAVID NOK. OXFORD: CLARENDON PRS, 1995. PP. XVI + 563 + ILL. £25.
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Poems by John Gay. See All Poems by John Gay. John Gay.
John Gay (b. 1732) was a playwright and poet bt known for his 1728 work, The Beggar’s Opera, and for his membership of the Scribles Club, a group of Tory-sympathizg wrers that clud Gay’s close iends, Alexanr Pope and Jonathan Swift.
Gay’s reer provis a eful wdow onto the opportuni and nstrats of the lerary marketplace the early 18th century. In s blendg of high and low culture, and of digeno and ntental fluenc, the play was nsistent wh Gay’s practice elsewhere his reer.
JOHN GAY 1685–1732 ENGLISH POET AND DRAMATIST
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His 1715 play, The What d’ye Call It, was self-nscly promoted on the grounds of s generic hybridy; poetic works such as We (1708), The Shepherd’s Week (1714) and Trivia; or, The Art of Walkg the Streets of London (1716), Gay produced parodi of classil forms (prcipally, the eclogue and the geic).
Dpe the mercial succs of The Beggar’s Opera and of certa other works, discsn of Gay’s reer has often been domated by a sense that he was unfairly neglected, his geni unrappreciated and sufficiently reward by the thori of his time. This image was part cultivated by Gay himself, and hg on a particular terpretatn of certa events his reer: for stance, the theatril supprsn of Polly (1729), sequel to The Beggar’s Opera; and the urt’s offer (perceived by the poet as an afont) to appot Gay as Gentleman Usher to the young Prcs Louisa 1727.
While is te that Gay faced fancial hardship at pots his reer, this was at least partly due to his ill-advised vtments—he suffered greatly the South Sea crisis of 1720.
TRYG TO UNRSTAND THE ENGLISH GAYS AT OXFORD
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Moreover, morn scholarship (for stance, Nok 1995, ced unr Bgraphi) has emphasized Gay’s social skills wh the lerary world and his mand of important aristocratic patrons, rrectg to some extent the simplistic narrative of misfortune and mistreatment that had too often prevailed prevly. Sutherland 1949 epomiz tradnal appreciatns of Gay, dwellg on his supposed nocence and lack of moral or satiril serns. Much of the cril work on Gay om the 1950s onward has one way or another been ncerned wh rrectg this evaluatn.