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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.
BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN GAY
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. 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: 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.