John Gay, Ballad Opera and the Théâtr la foire - Volume 11 Issue 2
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JOHN GAY
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. The work b edy and polil satire prose terspersed wh songs set to ntemporary and tradnal English, Irish, Sttish, and * john gay theatre *
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.
JOHN GAY, BALLAD OPERA AND THE THéâTR LA FOIRE
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 theatre *
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.
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.
JOHN GAY THEATRE, BARNSTAPLE
Gay’s journalistic terts are clearly seen a pamphlet, The Prent State of W (1711), a survey of ntemporary perdil publitns.