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
Other articl where Polly is discsed: John Gay: The productn of s sequel, Polly, was forbidn by the lord chamberla (doubtls on Walpole’s stctns); but the ban was an excellent advertisement for the piece, and subscriptns for pi of the prted edn ma more than £1,000 prof for the thor. (It was eventually produced 1777, when … * polly john gay *
Learn about this topic the articl:discsed bgraphy In John GayThe productn of s sequel, Polly, was forbidn by the lord chamberla (doubtls on Walpole’s stctns); but the ban was an excellent advertisement for the piece, and subscriptns for pi of the prted edn ma more than £1, 000 prof for the thor. John Gay Eded by Hal Gladfelr.
'Gamters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whor, but they are very Devils to their Wiv.' Wh The Beggar's Opera (1728), John Gay created one of the most endurgly popular works English theatre history, and vented a new dramatic form, the ballad opera. * polly john gay *
The only edn to be The Beggar's Opera wh s sequel, Polly, allowg to see the full spe of Gay's theatril and moral visn. Introductn nsirs Gay's e of crimal and rogue lerature, the polil ntext of the plays, Gay's attu to slavery and piracy, his treatment of genr, and the plays' formal theatril novatns.