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
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Inspired by Howards End (1910), wrten by EM Forster — who appears the play as the closeted gu-que character Man — Lopez draws heavily upon his own experience of gay life New York Cy.
Sherman’s Pulzer Prize nomated play Bent, produced first 1978 at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, is wily regard as the play that sparked more rearch to the treatment of homosexuals Nazi Germany durg World War II. Trivia: Her play Sex, Chips and the Holy Ghost featur a transsexual nun and a gay prit.
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In 1993, he received the Pulzer Prize for his play Angels Ameri: A Gay Fantasia on Natnal Them which was later ma to a film starrg Meryl Streep, Al Paco, Patrick Wilson, Mary-Louise Parker, and Emma Thompson.
Popular works: Angels Ameri: A Gay Fantasia on Natnal Them, A Bright Room Called Day, The Good Person of Szechuan. Homosexualy and the theatre have not been strangers.
In the first half of the 20th century, you uld be arrted for stagg a gay play.