Gay, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...and the then current fashion for Italian opera. Its sequel, Polly, written the following year, was suppressed by Sir Robert Walpole since it (like The Beggars Opera ) ridiculed his government. Gay was also the author of two books of verse called Fables...