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
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JOHN GAY
The Beggar’s Opera, a ballad opera three acts by John Gay, performed at Lln’s Inn Fields Theatre, London, 1728 and published the same year. The work b edy and polil satire prose terspersed wh songs set to ntemporary and tradnal English, Irish, Sttish, and * john gay opera *
The Beggar’s Opera, a ballad opera three acts by John Gay, performed at Lln’s Inn Fields Theatre, London, 1728 and published the same year. In , Gay portrays the liv of a group of thiev and prostut 18th-century London.
Gay ritur the ernment, fashnable society, marriage, and Italian operatic style. Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill based their ballad opera Die Dreigroschenoper (1928; The Threepenny Opera) on Gay’s work.
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.
BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN GAY
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. 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 was born Barnstaple, Devon, England on June 30, 1685. At the age of 10, Gay was orphaned and his uncle, the Reverend John Hammer, agreed to take re of him.
JOHN GAY: THE BEGGAR’S OPERA
After fishg his tn at the Barnstable Grammar School, Gay went to London to be an apprentice to a silk merchant.
1 Dislikg the work, Gay left the merchant to work briefly for Arthur Hill, who beme manager of a theater pany. In 1712, his late twenti, Gay was a secretary to the Duchs of Monmouth. 2 Durg his time London, Gay tablished relatnships wh Londoners and beme a part of the cy society.