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) No rating

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

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Robert Herrick, Jonathan Swift, George Herbert, Crashaw, Richard, Vaughan, Henry, Andrew Marvell, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Carew, Thomas Malory, Daniel Defoe, Edmund Waller, Suckling, John Sir, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, John Webster, Richard Lovelace, Alexander Pope, Thomas Traherne, John Gay, Izaak Walton, Thomas Sprat, Sir Isaac Newton, William Congreve, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, John Donne, Anne Finch, Matthew Prior, Montagu, Mary Wortley Lady, Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, M. H. Abrams, John Milton, James Boswell, Thomas Gray, James Thomson, William Collins, Christopher Smart, George Crabbe, Abraham Cowley, John Dryden, Edmund Spenser, Walter Raleigh, Robert Burton, Oliver Goldsmith, John Bunyan, Edmund Burke, John Foxe, Samuel Pepys, William Cowper, Samuel Butler, Richard Hooker, Christopher Marlowe, Stephen Greenblatt, Thomas Browne, Samuel Johnson LL.D., Piers Ploughman, William Caxton, John Skelton, Wyatt, Thomas Sir, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Thomas More, Thomas Nashe, Robert Southwell, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Thomas Campion, Sir Thomas Hoby, Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Hariot, Ben Johnson: The Norton anthology of English literature (Hardcover, 1993, Norton) 4 stars

The Norton anthology of English literature

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