This article ncerns John Gay's 1731 say 'Prelimary Dissertatn Concerng the Fundamental Prciple of Virtue or Moraly'. Gay unrtak two tasks here, the first of which is to supply a crern of virtue. I argue that he is
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JOHN GAY
John Gay, (born June 30, 1685, Barnstaple, Devon, Eng.—died Dec.
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4, 1732, London), 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.
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.
The Shepherd’s Week (1714) is a seri of mock classil poems pastoral settg; the Fabl (two seri, 1727 and 1738) are brief, octosyllabic illtratns of moral them, often satiril tone.Gay’s poetry was much fluenced by that of Alexanr Pope, who was a ntemporary and close iend. 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).His most succsful play was The Beggar’s Opera, produced London on Jan.
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(It was eventually produced 1777, when had a morate succs.) His Beggar’s Opera was succsfully transmted to the 20th century by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill as Die Dreigroschenoper (1928; The Threepenny Opera).“Hont” John Gay lost most of his money through disastro vtment South Sea stock, but he nohels left £6,000 when he died.
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John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist. My Own Epaph, scribed on Gay’s monument Wtmster Abbey; also quoted as "I thought so once; but now I know ".
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This article ncerns John Gay's 1731 say 'Prelimary Dissertatn Concerng the Fundamental Prciple of Virtue or Moraly'. Gay unrtak two tasks here, the first of which is to supply a crern of virtue. In other words: Gay is the first utilarian.
AUTHOR:JOHN GAY
While some scholars have taken an tert Gay's say, a staed treatment of s ntents do not exist, spe s acknowledged fluence on Hume, Hartley, Jam Mill, and John Stuart Mill.
CATEGORY:JOHN GAY (ATHLETE)
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