John gay playwright

John Gay (30 June – 4 December ) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. [2] He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (), a ballad opera. [3]. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera , a ballad opera. 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.

John Gay (born June 30, , Barnstaple, Devon, Eng.—died Dec. 4, , London) was an English poet and dramatist, chiefly remembered as the author of The Beggar’s Opera, a work distinguished by good-humoured satire and technical assurance. Don't have a personal account yet? Sign up now. Are you sure you want to reset the form?

Poet and playwright John Gay was born in Devon to an aristocratic though impoverished family. Unable to afford university, Gay went to London to apprentice as a draper instead. While in London, he began writing journalism, including the pamphlet The Present State of Wit (), a survey of contemporary periodicals and authors. He was educated at the grammar school of the town under Robert Luck, who had published some Latin and English poems. On leaving school he was apprenticed to a silk mercer in London, but being weary, according to Dr 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.

JOHN GAY (), English poet, was baptized on the 16th of September at Barnstaple, where his family had long been settled. He was educated at the grammar school of the town under Robert Luck, who had published some Latin and English poems. John Gay's reputation as a writer has always suffered from his having been part of an extraordinary satirical quintet, the Scriblerus Club, which met in the spring of and included the two indisputably greatest satirists of the period, Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope Though overshadowed by his two brilliant contemporaries, Gay was an important poet and dramatist in his own right. He produced a range of witty, mock-earnest poems and plays and one satiric masterpiece,.

John Gay (30 June – 4 December ) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. [2] He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (), a ballad opera. [3]. Well, there you have it: Pride Month concludes with the birthday of John Gay I never realized that it premiered in the year of its bicentennial until now. Those encountering the original work should be struck by its similarity to the German one.

John Gay was an English poet and dramatist, chiefly remembered as the author of The Beggar’s Opera, a work distinguished by good-humoured satire and technical assurance. A member of an ancient but impoverished Devonshire family, Gay was educated at the free grammar school in Barnstaple. He was. John Gay belonged to the Scriblerus Club — a coalition of like-minded anti-Enlightenment novelists, poets, playwrights and politicians who railed against the vanities of modern intellectual life and culture in the early 18th century. Peachum, a caricature of Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole, runs a gang of thieves, highwaymen and prostitutes and profits from their takings. Peaching is slang for informing.

But the Worthy and the Good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms _ Here lies GAY. Gay's two line epitaph to himself probably says more about the poet and playwright: Life is a jest; and all things show it, I thought so once: but now I know it. Jane Palmer The illustrator wishes to thank the following. .