John Gay | Brish Poet, Playwright & Satirist | Branni

Contents:

• JOHN GAY
• JOHN GAY, POET AND DRAMATIST
• LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN GAY (1685-1732) THOR OF "THE BEGGAR'S OPERA"
• THE LETTERS OF JOHN GAY

JOHN GAY

43: a ballad-opera three acts by John Gay (1728): realized om the origal airs / by Benjam Brten. Hanl: Acis and Galatea, (masque by John Gay, wh texts by Alexanr Pope and John Hugh) (HWV 49); [cir 1720]; [1732]. 10-10b John Gay, poet: Geofey Faber, publisher, of Faber and Gwyer Ltd, London: Thomas Jam Wise, book llector: Letter to T.

The threepenny opera / [mic by] Kurt Weill; [libretto and lyrics] by Bertolt Brecht; a new translatn by Wallace Shawn; based on Elisabeth Hptmann's German translatn of John Gay's The beggar's opera, 2006.

JOHN GAY, POET AND DRAMATIST

Partie of dance #2: a dance sue om A & G, an Amerin opera / poser: Jill Price, Amerin; lyricist: John Gay, English (om his 1732 productn of Acis & Galatea). Partie of dance #1: a dance sue om A & G, an Amerin opera / poser: Jill Price, Amerin; lyricist: John Gay, English (om his 1732 productn of Acis & Galatea). Wise ncerng the biblgraphy of John Gay's songs 'The Poor Shepherd', 'Molly Mogg', and 'Sweet William's Farewell to Black Ey'd San'; 1923-1927, n.

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. Gay was a member, together wh Pope, Jonathan Swift, and John Arbuthnot, of the Scribles Club, a lerary group that aimed to ridicule pedantry.

LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN GAY (1685-1732) THOR OF "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. “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 (/ɡeɪ/; 30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scribles Club.

Gay's pastorals achieved this goal and his ludicro pictur of the English untry lads and their lov were found to be entertag on their own acunt. Gay had jt been appoted secretary to the Brish ambassador to the urt of Hanover through the fluence of Jonathan Swift when the ath of Anne, Queen of Great Bra, three months later put an end to all his hop of official employment.

In takg a mock-heroic form, Gay's poem was able to poke fun at the notn of plete reformatn of street civily, while also proposg an ia of reform terms of the attu towards walkg. He had assistance om Pope and John Arbuthnot, but they allowed to be assumed that Gay was the sole thor.

THE LETTERS OF JOHN GAY

Gay had numero patrons, and 1720 he published Poems on Several Ocsns by subscriptn, takg £1000 or more. Gay, disregardg the advice of Pope and others of his iends, vted all his money South Sea stock, and, holdg on to the end of the South Sea Bubble, he lost everythg. The character of Peachum was spired by the thief-taker Jonathan Wild, executed 1725, and the prcipal figure of Macheath reflected memori of the French highwayman, Cl Duval, whose executn had created a sensatn London, and who exemplified the flamboyance and gallantry of Gay's lerary hero.

Gay's cisn to lnch the work was probably also fluenced by the huge tert that the Jack Sheppard, a ckney hoebreaker, had created all thgs relatg to Newgate Prison. Unr ver of the thiev and highwaymen who figured was disguised a satire on society, for Gay ma pla that scribg the moral of his characters he had md the rptns of the erng class. Swift is said to have suggted the subject, and Pope and Arbuthnot were nstantly nsulted while the work was progrs, but Gay mt be regard as the sole thor.