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John Gay (30 June – 4 December ) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. [2] He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (), a ballad opera. [3].

John Gay (born June 30, , Barnstaple, Devon, Eng.—died Dec. 4, , London) was an English poet and dramatist, chiefly remembered as the author of The Beggar’s Opera, a work distinguished by good-humoured satire and technical assurance.

For stimulating readings of Gay’s life, see David Nokes, John Gay: A Profession of Friendship (Oxford University Press, ) and Dianne Dugaw, ‘Deep Play’: John Gay and the Invention of Modernity (University of Delaware Press, ).

Poet and playwright John Gay was born in Devon to an aristocratic though impoverished family. Unable to afford university, Gay went to London to apprentice as a draper instead.