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
- CURTA RIS ON GIELGUD'S GAY SNDAL
- SIR JOHN GAY ALLEYNE, THE ALLEYNE SCHOOL AND A MOST IMPRSIVE LEGACY THAT MOUNT GAY RUM DISTILLERY NOBLY HONOURS.
JOHN GAY
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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.
CURTA RIS ON GIELGUD'S GAY SNDAL
By Stanley Collymore Thank you Mount Gay Rum for your mendable and altistic gture not only regnizg the remarkable achievements of the Alleyne School and regnizg the outstandg philanthropy of the Sir John Gay Alleyne, but also praiseworthily givg somethg back not only to the regn where all of this started, but equally… * sir john gay *
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.
The new play, Plague Over England, will suggt that the high-profile se helped to brg the untry nearer to makg homosexualy legal. While he did not hi his homosexualy, he never discsed openly.
SIR JOHN GAY ALLEYNE, THE ALLEYNE SCHOOL AND A MOST IMPRSIVE LEGACY THAT MOUNT GAY RUM DISTILLERY NOBLY HONOURS.
'The cric and thor, who has wrten about the history of homosexualy Brish theatre and has been a reviewer for the London Eveng Standard for 17 years, said he had not planned to wre a play: 'I don't know how happened. 'The script has been drawn large part om Jongh's own rearch wh survivg iends and lleagu of Gielgud's and is set at the time of the arrt, then later 1974, when the actor took his first gay role Harold Pter's play No Man's LandThe work is tend to remd dienc of the strength of anti-gay sentiment the Fifti. Homosexualy was equently likened to dg addictn or an epimic of ncer.
The Churchill ernment is thought by some to have promoted a wch-hunt after spi Guy Burgs and Donald Maclean, who were both gay, fected to the Soviet Unn.