182 books • 15 series
John Gay (1685-1732) was a poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), his ballad-opera set in London's criminal underworld while satirising contemporary politics and politicians.
A Poem
Fables de Gay
Fables of John Gay (Dodo Press)
The Beggar's Opera (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
Any Way I Can - Fifty Years in Show Business
Fables Of Mr. John Gay (1773)
The Beggar's Opera (Dodo Press)
The Present State of Wit, and the English Theophrastus (Dodo Press)
The Poetical Works of John Gay. With A Life of the Author, by Dr. Johnson. Vol. 1
The Poetical Works of John Gay. With A Life of the Author, by Dr. Johnson. Vol. 2
Long Day's Anger
Africa
Achilles: An Opera; As It Is Perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden (Classic Reprint)
Polly
The Distress'd Wife
The Mohocks
The Rehearsal at Goatham
The Captives
Dione
The Distressed Wife
Selected Poems: John Gay
Selected Poems of John Gay (Fyfield Books)
The Beggar's Opera and other plays (Everyman)
John Gay's "the Beggar's Opera"