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John Gay 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.
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culture · English poet and playwright (1685–1732) · poet · playwright · writer · librettist · composer · also John Gay, Gay, John, Gay
Born 30 June 1685 · Died 4 December 1732 · Q321660
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“s Week, a series of six pastorals drawn from English rustic life. Pope had urged him to undertake this in order to ridicule the Arcadian pastorals of Ambrose Philips, who had been praised by a short-lived contemporary publication The Guardian, to the neglect of Pope”
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Released album “The Beggar's Opera”.
Released album “The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)”.
Died 1732-12-04.
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“No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who’ve no retreat.”
Born 1685-06-30.
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