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  • Gay, John
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    GAY, JOHN 1685 1732, English playwright and poet, b. Barnstaple, Devon. Educated...Robert Walpole since it (like The Beggars Opera ) ridiculed his government. Gay was also the author of two books of verse called Fables (1727, 1738...
     
  • Arbuthnot, John
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ARBUTHNOT, JOHN arbuth n t, ar b thnot, 1667...best remembered for his five "John Bull" pamphlets (1712...which introduced the character John Bull, the typical Englishman...friends, Swift, Pope, and Gay, Arbuthnot was a member of...
     
  • Drama, Western
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...comedy, begun by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher and furthered by James Shirley...bombastic heroic dramas by such authors as John Dryden and Thomas Otway . Often written...the plays of Henry Fielding and in John Gay s Beggars Opera (1728) seemed to...
     
  • English Literature
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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    ...important Dissenting literary work was John Bunyan s Pilgrims Progress (1675...by the diaries of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn . The Eighteenth Century The...members included Pope, Swift, and John Gay (author of The Beggars Opera ). Its...
     
  • Opera
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...was the true antecedent of English opera, and John Blow s Venus and Adonis (c.1685) was actually...Beggars Opera (1728), with a libretto by the poet John Gay and music composed partly by John Christopher Pepusch . The Beggars Opera inaugurated...
     

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