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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

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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. 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).

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 *

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.

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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Above are Gay’s own words: “Life is a jt; and all thgs show / I thought so once; but now I know .”. Poems by John Gay.

JOHN GAY 1685–1732 ENGLISH POET AND DRAMATIST

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The Beggar's Opera and Polly - John Gay, Hal Gladfelr - Oxford Universy Prs .

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