- Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Wordplay
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Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language.
http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/bo.html
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- A Unique Masterpiece
A commentary on Beggar's Opera with a bibliography and biography on John Gay.
http://www.crock11.freeserve.co.uk/beggars.htm
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- An Elegy on a Lap-dog
Gay's 1720 poem.
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/gay1b.html
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- Familiar Quotations
Some of Gay's famous sayings compiled by John Bartlett.
http://bartleby.com/100/231.html
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- John Gay
Samuel Johnson's look at the life and personality of Gay.
http://www.hn.psu.edu/Faculty/KKemmerer/poets/gay/
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- John Gay
Biography, works, and links.
http://www.wwnorton.com/enjoy/classical/composers/jgay.htm
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- John Gay
List of his poems with lyrics from the Lied and Art Songs Text Page.
http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/g/gay/
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- John Gay
Wikipedia article focused mainly on his literary abilities, especially his Beggar's Opera. Includes portrait, internal references to related people and topics, and quotes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gay
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- John Gay
Biography, bibliography, and works.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jgay.htm
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- John Gay (1685-1732)
Considering Gay primarily as a poet, this site contains Samuel Johnson's "Preface" to Gay's works, links to Gay's works on line, and a selection of poems.
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/Faculty/KKemmerer/poets/gay/default.htm
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- Lowell House Opera
Photos from the March, 2000 production of Beggar's Opera.
http://arcadia.org/lho/
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- Poetry Archive
An index of his poems with a biography and links to related sites.
http://poetry-archive.com/g/gay_john.html
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- Selected Poetry
Five poems and an excerpt from Beggar's Opera.
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet132.html
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- The Beggar's Opera
Full electronic text of Beggar's Opera plus analysis of its impact.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed-new?id=GayBegg&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed
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- The Beggar's Opera
A historical look at the original production and its music.
http://www.umich.edu/~ece/student_projects/beggars_opera/
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- The Beggar's Opera
Transcription of John Gay's 1765 work.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/beggar.html
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- The Contemplator's Short History John Gay and The Beggar's Opera
Biography and information about work plus links to related material, embedded audio, and links to lyrics and MIDI files.
http://www.contemplator.com/history/johngay.html
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- Wikipedia
Synopsis of Beggar's Opera and its characters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beggar's_Opera
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