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LIFE AND LETTERS OF
JOHN GAY(1685-1732)
AUTHOR OF "THE BEGGAR'S OPERA" BY LEWIS MELVILLE
PUBLISHED IN LONDON BY DANIEL O'CONNOR, NINETY GREAT RUSSELL STREET, W.C.I: 1921
To GEORGE MAIR
PREFACE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
1685-1706 EARLY YEARS
CHAPTER II
1706-1712 GAY COMMENCES AUTHOR
CHAPTER III
1713 "RURAL SPORTS," "THE FAN," "THE WIFE OF BATH," ETC.
CHAPTER IV
1714 "THE SHEPHERD'S WEEK," "A LETTER TO A LADY."
CHAPTER V
1715-1719 "The What D'ye Call It"—An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Earl of Burlington—"Trivia, or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London"—"Three Hours After Marriage."
CHAPTER VI
1720 "Poems on Several Occasions"—Gay Invests His Earnings in the South Sea Company—The South Sea "Bubble" Breaks, and Gay Loses all His Money—Appointed a Commissioner of the State Lottery—Lord Lincoln Gives Him an Apartment in Whitehall—At Tunbridge Wells—Correspondence with Mrs. Howard.
CHAPTER VII
1724-1727 "THE CAPTIVES"—THE FIRST SERIES OF "FABLES"—GAY AND THE COURT—POPE, SWIFT AND MRS. HOWARD.
CHAPTER VIII
1727 "THE BEGGAR'S OPERA"
CHAPTER IX
1728-1729 "POLLY"
CHAPTER X
1729 CORRESPONDENCE
CHAPTER XI
1730 CORRESPONDENCE
CHAPTER XII
1731 CORRESPONDENCE
CHAPTER XIII
1732 DEATH
APPENDIX
I
SOURCES OF THE TUNES.
II
A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN GAY.
III
PROGRAMME OF THE REVIVAL OF "THE BEGGAR'S OPERA," LYRIC THEATRE, HAMMERSMITH, JUNE 7TH, 1920.
INDEX
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