Gay John
See also: Gay
Gay John , born the June 30th 1685 in Barnstaple (Devon) and dead the December 4th 1732, is a Poète and Dramaturge English.
He is especially known to have written the booklet of the Opera of the gueux (1728), on a music of Johann Christoph Pepusch. Characters of this opera, whose Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, inspired Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill for their Opéra of quat' under .
Biography
John Gay studied grammar. At the end of its studies, it entered like apprentice in a silk merchant to London, but, tasting little, according to Samuel Johnson, the “servility of its profession”, it is then turned over to Barnstaple to spend some time in his uncle, the Reverend John Hanmer, before setting out again for London.The dedication of sound Rural Sports (1713) with Alexander Pope was the beginning of a long friendship. In 1714, at the request of Pope, Gay wrote The Shepherd' S Week , a series of six pastoral, outline of the English rustic life, to ridicule the pastoral S Arcadie born of Ambrose Philips. The pastoral ones of Gay achieved this goal.
In 1714, Gay was named secretary of the British ambassador at the court of Hanover, thanks to the influence of Jonathan Swift, but the death of the queen Anne, three months later, the 1714, rang the knell of its career of civil servant. Indeed, the successor of the queen Anne on the British throne being precisely the voter George Ier of Hanover, and this one coming to settle in London, the embassy ceased having a utility.
Gay would be the first English to have written fables in worms
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