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)

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

by Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot, and 4 others

William Shakespeare, Samuel Butler, Francis Bacon, Jonathan Swift, M. H. Abrams, Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Philip Sidney, Robert Burton, John Milton, Edmund Spenser, Thomas Malory, John Bunyan, Christopher Marlowe, Oliver Goldsmith, Daniel Defoe, John Foxe, John Locke, Thomas More, Stephen Greenblatt, Samuel Pepys, John Dryden, Samuel Johnson LL.D., John Webster, Thomas Gray, Alexander Pope, John Gay, Thomas Browne, Thomas Hobbes, John Donne, Piers Ploughman, William Caxton, 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, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Crashaw, Richard, Vaughan, Henry, Andrew Marvell, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Thomas Carew, Edmund Waller, Suckling, John Sir, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Traherne, Abraham Cowley, Izaak Walton, Thomas Sprat, Sir Isaac Newton, William Congreve, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Anne Finch, Matthew Prior, Montagu, Mary Wortley Lady, Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, James Boswell, Edmund Burke, James Thomson, William Collins, Christopher Smart, George Crabbe, William Cowper: The Norton anthology of English literature (Hardcover, 1993, Norton)

The Norton anthology of English literature

by William Shakespeare, Samuel Butler, Francis Bacon, and 71 others