John Gay

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Born:
June 30, 1685
Died:
Dec. 4, 1732

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John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.

Books by John Gay

Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot, John Gay, Thomas Parnell, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, Alexander Pope: Memoirs of the extraordinary life, works and discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus (Paperback, 2002, Hesperus Press)

Memoirs of the extraordinary life, works and discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus

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John Gay: The beggar's opera (1986, Penguin Books)

The beggar's opera

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William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas More, John Locke, Robert Burton, Thomas Hobbes, M. H. Abrams, Christopher Marlowe, Stephen Greenblatt, John Milton, Samuel Butler, Jonathan Swift, John Fletcher, Thomas Malory, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Joseph Addison, Daniel Defoe, John Donne, Francis Bacon, John Dryden, John Bunyan, William Caxton, James Thomson, Edmund Burke, Alexander Pope, John Gay, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Browne, Samuel Pepys, William Cowper, James Boswell, Izaak Walton, Francis Beaumont, John Foxe, George Herbert, Sir Isaac Newton, Piers Ploughman, John Skelton, Wyatt, Thomas Sir, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Thomas Nashe, Walter Raleigh, Robert Southwell, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Thomas Campion, Sir Thomas Hoby, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hariot, Ben Johnson, John Webster, Robert Herrick, Crashaw, Richard, Vaughan, Henry, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Carew, Edmund Waller, Suckling, John Sir, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Traherne, Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat, William Congreve, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Anne Finch, Matthew Prior, Montagu, Mary Wortley Lady, Sir Richard Steele, Thomas Gray, William Collins, Christopher Smart, Oliver Goldsmith, George Crabbe: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1 (Paperback, 2000, W W Norton & Co Inc (Np))

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1

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John Gay: Poetry and prose [of] John Gay (Oxford University Press)

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Poetry and prose [of] John Gay

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