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John Gay
Standard Name: Gay, John
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Mary Barber | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Barber | Here a mother teaching her children out of Gay's Fables, 1727, finds her fav'rite Son so moved by the tale of the hare and many friends that she has to assure him that if... |
Publishing | Mary Barber | He concluded, let Mrs Howard
know that I recommend you to the Queen
, Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, Vol. xviii , pp. 155-74. 170 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Boyd | EB
offers original, discriminating praise for women's writing: Susanna Centlivre
(her inspiration, she says), Eliza Haywood
(though she regrets her exposure of women's faults), Aphra Behn
, and Delarivier Manley
, whom she calls the... |
Textual Features | Ann Candler | Other poems address public or personal topics, sometimes blending the two together. One may assume that in her poems on political issues AC
expressed her actual opinions, even while mindful of remaining acceptable. Her Serious... |
Occupation | Charlotte Charke | CC
, at Henry Fielding
's Haymarket Theatre
, appeared in male roles: as Macheath (John Gay
), Falstaff (Shakespeare
), George Barnwell (George Lillo
), and Lothario (Nicholas Rowe
). The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 3: 402ff |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah Cowley | Not much is known about her mother, born Hannah Richards, who was a cousin of John Gay
and who married HC
's father in 1742. Mahotière, Mary de la. Hannah Cowley, Tiverton’s Playwright and Pioneer Feminist (1743-1809). Devon Books. 17 |
Occupation | Edmund Curll | Commentators seem unanimously to have believed Pope
's pamphlet claim that he dosed Curll with an emetic to punish him for illicitly publishing Court Poems on 26 March 1716—though since Pope also claimed to have... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hands | EH
's pastorals include some touching love-stories, but they also regularly reverse the gender situations traditional to the genre. It is pairs of nymphs (not pairs of shepherds) who are alike ambitious to excel in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Herberts | This tale is not continuous, but distributed in sections throughout the book. The romance couples make periodic contact with the Countess Brillante, a woman writer about whom Herbert's attitude is typically protean and hard to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. B. C. Jones | This is a story of the difficult or tormented love-affairs of sensitive young people trying to construct their new and modern world. (Intellectually, they seek to reach back past the nineteenth century towards the eighteenth... |
Textual Features | L. E. L. | This novel provides a satirical portrait of high society in early eighteenth-century England. It centres on Henrietta, Countess of Marchmont, an upper-class orphan enduring a loveless marriage and imperilled by her first visit to... |
Textual Production | Mary Latter | The title-page has a quotation from John Gay
about the outspoken integrity of the poet (as contrasted with courtiers). Latter, Mary. Liberty and Interest. James Fletcher. title-page |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Leapor | To test the waters Freeman selected from among ML
's poems those which were less likely to give offence by their class attitudes. Rizzo, Betty. “Molly Leapor: An Anxiety for Influence”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol. 4 , pp. 313-43. 321-3 |
Textual Production | Helen Mathers | HM
continued after this to keep up a rate of one or two new novels a year (though 1897 and 1899 were fallow years). They include T'other Dear Charmer, 1892 (titled from John Gay |
Timeline
January 1716: John Gay published Trivia; or, The Art of...
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January 1716
John Gay
published Trivia; or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London.
20 January 1724: Elizabeth Harrison wrote for publication,...
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20 January 1724
Elizabeth Harrison
wrote for publication, with her name, A Letter to Mr. John Gay
, On his Tragedy, call'd The Captives. To which is annex'd a copy of verses to the Princess.
By June 1727: John Gay published his first series of F...
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By June 1727
John Gay
published his first series of Fables.
1728: Ephraim Chambers attempted in his Cyclopaedia...
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1728
Ephraim Chambers
attempted in his Cyclopaedia to offer a digest of all existing modern knowledge.
29 January 1728: John Gay's The Beggar's Opera opened at Lincoln's...
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29 January 1728
30 March 1730: Henry Fielding's The Author's Farce opened...
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30 March 1730
Henry Fielding
's The Author's Farce opened at his Little Theatre in the Haymarket
, which was currently presenting its first season.
7 December 1732: John Rich opened a new theatre in Covent...
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7 December 1732
John Rich
opened a new theatre in Covent Garden
, the Theatre Royal, and moved his farces and pantomimes there from the other Theatre Royal in Drury Lane
.
8 June 1829: Douglas William Jerrold's play Black-Ey'd...
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8 June 1829
Texts
Gay, John et al. Three Hours After Marriage. Bernard Lintot, 1717.