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29 de set. de 2014 · John Gay (b. 1685–d. 1732) was a playwright and poet best known for his 1728 work, The Beggar’s Opera, and for his membership of the Scriblerus Club, a group of Tory-sympathizing writers that included Gay’s close friends, Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. Gay’s career provides a useful window onto the opportunities and constraints of ...
John Gay (ur. 30 czerwca 1685, zm. 4 grudnia 1732) – angielski poeta i dramaturg . Najbardziej znany jako autor libretta do Beggar’s Opera (1728), do której muzykę napisał Niemiec Johann Christoph Pepusch. Bohaterowie tej sztuki, tacy jak: kapitan Macheath czy Polly Peachum, stali się tak sławni, że nadawano sobie te imiona na chrzcie.
John Gay ( Barnstaple ( Devon ), 30 juni 1685 – Londen, 4 december 1732) was een Engels dichter en dramaturg, vooral bekend door zijn toneelstuk The Beggar's Opera . Gay was van 1712 tot 1714 secretaris van de hertogin van Monmouth. In 1713 verscheen het gedicht Rural sports, opgedragen aan Alexander Pope, met wie hij bevriend was.
John Gay. 1685–1732. DEA PICTURE LIBRARY / Getty. 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 (1711), a survey of ...
27 de jun. de 2018 · John Gay was born on June 30, 1685, in Barnstaple, Devonshire. Orphaned at age 10, he was sent to the local grammar school until, aged about 17, he was apprenticed to a silk dealer in London. Possibly because of illness, he was released from this apprenticeship in 1706 and returned to Barnstaple.
Há 5 dias · John Gay. John Gay, the celebrated poet and dramatist, was buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey on 23rd December 1732, in the central part of the area near Thomas Parr's grave. The funeral was a lavish affair and Alexander Pope was one of the pall bearers.
John Gay, né le à Barnstaple, dans le Devon, et mort le 4 décembre 1732 à Londres, est un poète et dramaturge anglais . Il est surtout connu pour avoir écrit le livret de L'Opéra des gueux (1728), sur une musique de Johann Christoph Pepusch. Ce dernier a, en fait, dans un esprit nationaliste et anti-italien, collecté et mis bout à bout ...
