Genealogy for John Gay, poet and dramatist (1685 - 1732) fay tree on Geni, wh over 250 ln profil of anctors and livg relativ.
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- 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
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 * john gay 1685 *
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].
JOHN GAY, POET AND DRAMATIST
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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. 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).
LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN GAY (1685-1732) THOR OF "THE BEGGAR'S OPERA"
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.
THE LETTERS OF JOHN GAY
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.