Search results
Gay was born in Barnstaple, England, last of five children of William Gay (died 1695) and Katherine (died 1694), daughter of Jonathan Hanmer, "the leading Nonconformist divine of the town" as founder of the Independent Dissenting congregation in Barnstaple. The Gay family- "fairly comfortable... though far from rich"-lived in "a large house, called the Red Cross, on the corner of Joy Street".
Jun 26, 2024 · John Gay (born June 30, 1685, Barnstaple, Devon, Eng.—died Dec. 4, 1732, 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.. A member of an ancient but impoverished Devonshire family, Gay was educated at the free grammar school in Barnstaple.
You are now the manager of this memorial. Thanks for helping with Find a Grave! You may request to transfer up to 250,000 memorials managed by Find a Grave.
The Beggar’s Opera, a ballad opera in three acts by John Gay, performed at Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre, London, in 1728 and published in the same year.The work combines comedy and political satire in prose interspersed with songs set to contemporary and traditional English, Irish, Scottish, and French tunes. In it, Gay portrays the lives of a group of thieves and prostitutes in 18th ...
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 contemporary periodicals and authors. Rural Sports (1713) is generally considered his first important ...
Apr 20, 2024 · Biography . John Gay was born by about 1613 (assuming he was about 25 at his estimated marriage date in 1638). He immigrated to New England by 1634 based on his becoming a freeman on 6 May 1635. His specific origins in England are unknown.
John Gay, (born, June 30, 1685, Barnstaple, Devon, Eng.—died Dec. 4, 1732, London), British poet and dramatist.From an ancient but impoverished Devonshire family, Gay was apprenticed to a silk mercer in London but was released early. He soon cofounded the journal The British Apollo.His poetry collections included Rural Sports (1713) and Trivia (1716).
Jun 27, 2018 · John Gay >The English playwright and poet John Gay (1685-1732) is best known for "The >Beggar's Opera," a skillful blend of literary, political, social, and >musical satire. John Gay was born on June 30, 1685, in Barnstaple, Devonshire.
When John Gay was born on 12 April 1724, in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Stephen Gay, was 34 and his mother, Sarah Pond, was 31.
The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch.It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today. Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the conventions of opera, but without recitative.
Related searches
