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John Gay (1) (1685–1732)

Auteur van The Beggar's Opera

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Gay is a highly original poet and dramatist who experimented in various forms and genres. His The What D'Ye Call It: A Tragi-Comical Pastoral Farce (1715) is a burlesque of high seriousness, as is Three Hours after Marriage, which he wrote with his fellow members of the Scriblerus Club Alexander toon meer Pope and Dr. John Arbuthnot. The Beggar's Opera (1728) is his best-known work; it started the vogue for ballad operas, with tunes drawn from popular airs (Gay's are mostly from Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy, a popular sourcebook for ribald songs). The Beggar's Opera satirizes gentility and vulgarity alike, and its topical political allusions are so direct that the government forbade its' sequel, Polly. Bertolt Brecht caught the spirit of the work in his Threepenny Opera. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van John Gay

The Beggar's Opera (1728) 859 exemplaren
Fables (1793) 55 exemplaren
Poems (1950) 15 exemplaren
Fables, by the late Mr. John Gay (1737) 10 exemplaren
The Poetical Works of John Gay (1926) 9 exemplaren
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 [score] (1949) — Composer of original opera — 9 exemplaren
Three Hours After Marriage (1961) 8 exemplaren
Selected Poems (Fyfield Books) (1979) 7 exemplaren
The Beggar’s Opera [1983 film] (2005) — Writer — 6 exemplaren
London observed (1964) 5 exemplaren
Poetry and prose, vol 1 (1974) 4 exemplaren
Dramatic works (1983) 3 exemplaren
Rural sports a poem (1930) 3 exemplaren
Fables (Part One) 2 exemplaren
Poems of John Gay 1 exemplaar
The Praise of Folly 1 exemplaar
The fan. A poem. (2011) 1 exemplaar
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Another in the vein of [b:The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman|76527|The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman|Laurence Sterne|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1403402384s/76527.jpg|2280279] or [b:Augustus Carp, Esq. By Himself Being The Autobiography Of A Really Good Man|837278|Augustus Carp, Esq. By Himself Being The Autobiography Of A Really Good Man|Henry H. Bashford|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347324333s/837278.jpg|822869]. It has its moments.
 
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mkfs | 5 andere besprekingen | Aug 13, 2022 |
Gay, John. The Beggar’s Opera. 1728. Dover, 1999.
July has been my month for thieves, pickpockets, and denizens of mean streets, real and fanciful. I started the month by reading a recent fantasy novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, which inspired me to read Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera, which brought me to John Gay, one of the early sources of it all. I have just embarked on Daniel Abraham’s new novel, The Age of Ash, another fantasy that begins with a detailed description of a three-person cutpurse team in action. Why does popular culture so love gangs of urban miscreants? There may be some wish-fulfillment in the dream of taking money from the undeserving rich. We admire the immoral efficiency of criminal gangs. Gay apologizes for not delivering poetic justice all around, but justice is just what we say we want, not what we really want. Even murder is fine if it is done with style. Murder, he says, is as “fashionable a crime as a man can be guilty of.” Lawyers are the worst criminals because they steal your “whole estate.” I have never seen the play produced and wonder how the doggerel and social stereotyping would play to a modern audience. But I could be wrong—we certainly like the updated versions. 4 stars.… (meer)
 
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Tom-e | 14 andere besprekingen | Jul 18, 2022 |
This always brings back memories. was in theater in college and we did this play one year. Fun times.
 
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KyleneJones | 14 andere besprekingen | Apr 25, 2022 |
The opera on which the Threepenny Opera is based. Plot very similar although the Threepenny is a little expanded.
 
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