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

John Gay 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

Table of Contents Previous Chapter Next Chapter JOHN GAY To a Lady WHEN I some antique Jar behold, Appear the types of woman-kind: Too fair, too fine for household duty? The treasure cannot cost too dear! But Man is made of coarser stuff, And serves convenience well enough; For drudging, labour, toil and trade; And when wives lose their other self, With ease they bear the loss of Delf. Table of Contents Previous Chapter Next Chapter

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

Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Page history ... Printable version Not logged in Log in Help John Gay 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. Biography 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

John Gay 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/

John Gay Songs from The Beggar's Opera Air I An Old Woman Clothed in Gray, etc. Air X Thomas, I Cannot, etc. Air XI A Soldier and a Sailor Air XVI Over the Hills and Far Away ... Classics

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 http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jgay.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: 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, Ours is not to-morrow: Love with youth flies swift away, Age is naught but sorrow. Dance and sing, Time's on the wing, Life never knows the return of spring. (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 http://www.bartleby.com/65/ga/Gay-John.html

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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. http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/beggar.html

Return to Renascence Editions The Beggar's Opera John Gay Transcribed, with an Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography, ... rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu Skip to: Act I. Act II. Act III. Notes. ... Bibliography. INTRODUCTION 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, Round, round let it pass, 'Till our Reason be lost in our Wine: Leave Conscience's Rules To Women and Fools, This only can make us divine. Chorus. Then a Mohock, a Mohock I'll be, No Laws shall restrain Our Libertine Reign, 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

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12. John Gay Biography, works, and links. http://www.wwnorton.com/enjoy/classical/composers/jgay.htm

JOHN GAY Born: 1685 (baptized September 16), Barnstaple, England Died: December 4, 1732, London English poet and dramatist. Best known for The Beggar's Opera 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 WORKS: Ballad operas: The Beggar's Opera Polly (1728, but banned) and

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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

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JOHN GAY 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

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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

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19. Gay, John gay, john. gay, john, 1685–1732, English playwright and poet, b. Barnstaple,Devon. Related content from HighBeam Research on john gay. http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0820362.html

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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 http://members.garbersoft.net/spartacus/beggar.htm

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 Money with our Hearts. For her, like Wolves by Night we roam for Prey, And practise ev'ry Fraud, to bribe her Charms; For suits of Love, like Law, are won by Pay, And Beauty must be fee'd into our Arms. A Fox may steal your Hens, Sir, A Whore your Health and Pence, Sir, Your Daughter rob your Chest, Sir, Your Wife may steal your Rest, Sir. A Thief your Goods and Plate. But this is all but picking, With Rest, Pence, Chest and Chicken; It ever was decreed, Sir, If Lawyer's Hand is fee'd, Sir, He steals your whole Estate. The Lawyers are bitter Enemies to those in our Way. They don't care that any body should get a clandestine Livelihood but themselves. Man may escape from Rope and Gun; Nay, some have outliv'd the Doctor's Pill; Who takes a Woman must be undone, That Basilisk is sure to kill. The Fly that sips the Treacle is lost in the Sweets, So he that tastes Woman, Woman, Woman

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