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John Gay's the beggar's opera and other eighteenth-century plays (Everyman's library) by John Hampden, 1962 Murder Most Gay by John Simpson, 2008-05-15 Taking a Chance on God: Liberating Theology for Gays, Lesbians, and Their Lovers, Families, and Friends by John J. McNeill, 1996-05-01 Four Grooms and a Queen (Murder Most Gay) by John Simpson, 2009-12-01 Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell, 2005-11-01 Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University by John D'Emilio, 1992-08-14 Gay Love (New Erotic Reads) by Elizabeth Coldwell, Celyn Lleuad, et all 2010-03-03 Fables of John Gay (Dodo Press) by John Gay, 2009-02-06 The Beggar's Opera (Penguin Classics) by John Gay, 1987-01-06 Queer Kids: The Challenges and Promise for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth (Haworth Gay and Lesbian Studies) by John DececcoPhd, Robert E Owens, 1998-06-10 The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture by John D'Emilio, 2002-01-01 Ghosts of Stanton Hall by John Simpson, 2009-10-07 Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America by John-Manuel Andriote, 1999-06-01 If You Seduce a Straight Person, Can You Make Them Gay?: Issues in Biological Essentialism Versus Social Constructionism in Gay and Lesbian Identiti by John DececcoPhd, John Patrick Elia, 1993-04-22

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1. John Gay
   John Gay. John Gay, 16851732, English poet and dramatist. With Swift andPope Gay formed the group of Tory satirists called the Scriblerians.  
   http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Frank/People/gay.html
   
   Extractions: John Gay, 1685- , English poet and dramatist. With Swift and Pope Gay formed the group of Tory satirists called the Scriblerians. He is best known for his Beggar's Opera ), a parody of the newly fashionable Italian opera, which portrays London's criminal lowlife and includes a number of satirical swipes at Robert Walpole. Wollstonecraft, in A Vindication , quotes from his Fable XIII, "The Tame Stag," 27-36. His life was written by Samuel Johnson

2. THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE - John Gay
   JOHN GAY. 16851732. 450 To a Lady. WHEN I some antique Jar behold,Or white, or blue, or speck’d with gold, Vessels so pure, and  
   http://users.compaqnet.be/cn127848/obev/obev120.html

3. John Gay - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   John Gay. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Gay (16851732)was an English poet and dramatist. He is best remembered  
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gay
   
   Extractions: Log in Help From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Gay ) was an English poet and dramatist . He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera ), set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch . The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names. Gay was born in Barnstaple, England and was educated at the town's grammar school . On leaving school he was apprenticed to a silk mercer in London , but being weary, according to Samuel Johnson , "of either the restraint or the servility of his occupation," he soon returned to Barnstaple, where he spent some time with his uncle, the Rev. John Hanmer, the Nonconformist minister of the town. He then returned to London. The dedication of his Rural Sports ) to Alexander Pope was the beginning of a lasting friendship. In , Gay wrote The Shepherd's Week , a series of six pastorals drawn from English rustic life. Pope had urged him to undertake this task in order to ridicule the Arcadian pastorals of Ambrose Philips , who had been praised by The Guardian , to the neglect of Pope's claims as the first pastoral writer of the age and the true English Theocritus . Gay's pastorals completely achieved this goal, but his ludicrous pictures of the English country lads and their loves were found to be entertaining on their own account.

4. HOASM: John Gay
   John Gay. (16851732). English poet and by Richard Bear. Scene fromThe Beggar s Opera, by Hogarth. Samuel Johnson s Life of John Gay.  
   http://www.hoasm.org/VIIA/Gay.html
   
   Extractions: Acis and Galatea. Best known as the creator of the ballad or parody opera. Works include The Beggar's Opera (1729), a parody of the newly fashionable Italian opera, which portrays London's criminal lowlife and includes a number of satirical swipes at Robert Walpole.; Polly (written as a sequel to but banned and not staged until 1779); Achilles (Covent Garden 1733). With Swift and Pope Gay formed the group of Tory satirists called the Scriblerians. Gay was born in Barnstaple, England and was educated at the town's grammar school. On leaving school he was apprenticed to a silk mercer in London, but being weary, according to Samuel Johnson, "of either the restraint or the servility of his occupation," he soon returned to Barnstaple, where he spent some time with his uncle, the Rev. John Hanmer, the Nonconformist minister of the town. He then returned to London. The dedication of his Rural Sports (1713 ) to Alexander Pope was the beginning of a lasting friendship. In 1714, Gay wrote The Shepherd's Week, a series of six pastorals drawn from English rustic life. Pope had urged him to undertake this task in order to ridicule the Arcadian pastorals of Ambrose Philips, who had been praised by The Guardian, to the neglect of Pope's claims as the first pastoral writer of the age and the true English Theocritus. Gay's pastorals completely achieved this goal, but his ludicrous pictures of the English country lads and their loves were found to be entertaining on their own account.

5. Selected Poems Of John Gay
   John Gay (16851732). Songs from The Beggar s Opera Air I AnOld Woman Clothed in Gray, etc. Air X Thomas, I Cannot, etc.  
   http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/Gay/

6. John Gay
   John Gay (16851732) Johnson s Life of John Gay. The Poet and the Rose XLIX. TheMan and the Flea; To a Lady on Her Passion for Old China. Life of John Gay.  
   http://www.hn.psu.edu/Faculty/KKemmerer/poets/gay/default.htm

7. John Gay
   (from The Beggar s Opera). john gay was born at Barnstaple in Devon,the youngest son of William gay. He lost his parents at an early  
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   Extractions: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback John Gay (1685-1732) English poet and dramatist, friend of Pope and Swift. Gay is remembered for his play THE BEGGAR'S OPERA (1728), which was the basis for Kurt Weil and Bertold Brecht 's classical work Dreigroschenoper (1928, The Threepenny Opera). The play was highly successful and enabled Gay to spent more money on gambling and drinking. Its sequel, POLLY (1729), was supposedly suppressed by the prime minister Robert Walpole, who thus only incited people to buy its printed version. Let us drink and sport to-day, (from The Beggar's Opera In 1708 Gay published 'Wine', a poem to celebrate the Act of Union between England and Scotland and in 1711 he published the pamphlet THE PRESENT STATE OF WIT. During these years he met Pope and began to visit the fashionable coffee-houses. In London Gay supported himself by working as a journalist. His first important poem, THE RURAL SPORTS (1713), was dedicated to Pope. The long poem comically glorifies descriptions of hunting and fishing. THE WHAT D'YE CALL IT (1715) was Gay's first satirical play, which he finished at the age of 30. The Beggar's Opera was first performed when the author was 43. John Pepusch, a German musician, wrote popular songs for the play. The story of highwaymen and corrupt law-keepers is still performed. Its sequel

8. Gay, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
   2001. gay, john. 16851732, English playwright and poet, b it (like The Beggars Opera) ridiculed his government. gay was also the author of two books of verse called  
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   Extractions: Select Search All Bartleby.com All Reference Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia Cultural Literacy World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations Respectfully Quoted English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough All Verse Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals All Fiction Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference Columbia Encyclopedia See also: Gay Quotations PREVIOUS NEXT CONTENTS ... BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Gay, John

9. Gay, John. The American Heritage® Dictionary Of The English Language: Fourth Ed
   gay, john. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English LanguageFourth Edition. 2000. Language Fourth Edition. 2000. gay, john.  
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   Extractions: Select Search All Bartleby.com All Reference Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia Cultural Literacy World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations Respectfully Quoted English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough All Verse Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals All Fiction Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference American Heritage Dictionary gay ... BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.

10. The Beggar's Opera
    The Beggar s Opera. john gay. john gay produced, apart from The Beggar s Opera ,a small body of prose and poetry ranging in quality from brilliant to drab.  
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    Extractions: Renascence Editions Transcribed, with an Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography, ... rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu Skip to: British Museum B John Gay produced, apart from The Beggar's Opera , a small body of prose and poetry ranging in quality from brilliant to drab. In 1712 was printed, but never acted, a short topical play, The Mohocks , concerning the exploits of a gang who had named themselves after a warlike Native American tribe: Come fill up the Glass, We'll riot, drink on, and be free. [All Drink.] The point of this slight work, if it has one, seems to be that frolicsome gentlemen, by introducing chaos into society, have only themselves to blame if that chaos leads to their own downfall. The moral concern that drives The Beggar's Opera is found here, along with its sense of play and eye for detail; it is easy to see why the Scriblerians adopted Gay so wholeheartedly so early in his career.

11. Poet Index For Representative Poetry On-line
    The text of several of gay's poems.  
    http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/authors/gay.html

12. John Gay
    Biography, works, and links.  
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    Extractions: You've probably heard "Weird Al" Yankovic on the radio or recordings, or turned on PBS and seen Mark Russell. Each of them sings other people's songs, but with their own, often satirical words added to make the lyrics relevant and funny. This is called parody and it is exactly what John Gay did with his Beggar's Opera . To create what came to be known as a ballad opera, he concocted a plot that lampooned not only the morals of eighteenth-century London, but also the style of Italian opera seria. In doing so, he played to the interests of a broad segment of society and helped to bring about changes on the opera stage. This wide appeal made The Beggar's Opera the most successful theater event of the century. The sources for his songs were equally broad, from parodies of operatic works by George Frideric Handel (the leading composer of Italian opera in England) to folk and popular songs that dated back over a hundred years. The work's influence continued into the twentieth century, when Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht created a modern version, the Threepenny Opera

13. Your Search:
    processing requests The Contemplator's Short History john gay and The Beggar's Opera. The Contemplator's Short History of john gay and the Beggar's Opera The background music is the it .  
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14. John Gay (1685-1732)
    Considering gay primarily as a poet, this site contains Samuel Johnson's Preface to gay's works, links to gay's works on line, and a selection of poems.  
    http://www2.hn.psu.edu/Faculty/KKemmerer/poets/gay/default.htm

15. JOHN GAY
    john gay. gay, john (16851732), English poet, was baptized on the 16th of September 1685 at Barnstaple his uncle, the Rev. john Hanmer, the Nonconformist minister of the town  
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    Extractions: GAY, JOHN See his Poetical Works (18~) in the Muses Library, with an introduction by Mr john Underhill; also Samuel Johnsons Lives of the Poets, John Gay s Singspiele (1898), edited by G. Sarrazin (Englische Textbibliothek II.); and an article by Austin Dobson in vol. 21 of the Dictionary of National Biography; Gays Chair (1820), edited by Henry Lee, a fellow-townsman, contained a biographical sketch by his nephew, the Rev. Joseph Baller. CHARLES ETIENNE ARTHUR GAYARRE MARIE FRANCOISE SOPHIE GAY

16. John Hottinger - Reportages Photo : Bikers Tattoo Gay Pride Gitans ...
    Reportages en noir et blanc sur les gitans aux SaintesMaries-de-la Mer, la gay pride et sur le milieu des tatoueurs, des bikers, et de la danse.  
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17. Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Gay & Pepusch
    john gay john Christopher Pepusch. (1685 1732) (1667 - 1752).  
    http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/gay&pep.html

18. 3kings
    The lives of gay couple in Northern California with their son Jordan. Includes photographs and Dan's journal.  
    http://www.geocities.com/see3kings/

19. Gay, John
    gay, john. gay, john, 1685–1732, English playwright and poet, b. Barnstaple,Devon. Related content from HighBeam Research on john gay.  
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    Extractions: Gay, John Gay, John, , English playwright and poet, b. Barnstaple, Devon. Educated at the local grammar school, he was apprenticed to a silk mercer for a brief time before commencing his literary career in London. The first of his writings to have any real merit were the mock pastoral, The Shepherd's Week (1714), and Trivia (1716), an amusing description of London life. He is remembered chiefly today for his ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera (1728), a lighthearted story of highwaymen and thieves, which satirizes both the corruption of contemporary genteel society and the then current fashion for Italian opera. Its sequel, Polly, written the following year, was suppressed by Sir Robert Walpole since it (like The Beggar's Opera ) ridiculed his government. Gay was also the author of two books of verse called

20. Beggar
    The Beggar's Opera. by. john gay. ( excerpts) ' Tis Woman that seduces all Mankind, By her we first were taught the wheedling Arts Her very Eyes can cheat; when most she's kind, She tricks us of our  
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