Gay, John, 1685-1732
Variant names
Britons,
English,
Biographical notes:
Epithet: poet, playwright
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0002c5
Links to collections
Gay, John, 1685-1732. The modern wife [microform].
Pennsylvania State University Libraries
Ramsay, Allan, 1686-1758. The songs in ye Beggar's opera parodied : manuscript, [17--].
Houghton Library
Carter, Elliott, 1908-. Women's chorus from John Gay's Beggar's opera : act II scene IV / newly set by Elliott Carter.
Library of Congress
Gay, John, 1685-1732. Les amusements champetres georgique adresses a M Pope par M Gay. Traduites de l'anglois par le Marquis de St. Simon; [Paris], [1754 May 20].
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Gay, John, 1685-1732. Fables : manuscript, 1749.
Houghton Library
Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773. Drawings, 1738-1764.
Houghton Library
Gay, John, 1685-1732. Fables choisies de John Gay, [18th Century].
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Gay, John, 1685-1732. The owls, the bats & the sun : a fable / by the late Mr. Gay : manuscript, [after 1732]
Houghton Library
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Letter in the autograph of John Gay and signed "Richard Sympson" : London, to Benjamin Motte, 1726 Aug. 8.
Pierpont Morgan Library.
Gay, Ernest Lewis, 1874-1916,. Papers concerning the Mohocks and Hawkubites, 1711-1712.
Houghton Library
Gay, John, 1685-1732. Original assignment by him of his "Fifty fables" and "Beggar's opera" : to Jacob Tonson and John Watts : manuscript, 1727 Feb. 6.
Houghton Library
Gay, John, 1685-1732. The beggar's opera ballad opera collection, 1771-1980.
University of Colorado, Boulder
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Note in the autograph of John Gay and signed "R. Sympson" : London, to Benjamin Motte, 1726 Aug. 13.
Pierpont Morgan Library.
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. O kenntest du die Qual einsamer Liebe / Händel.
University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library
Gay, John, 1685-1732. Le fabuliste anglois : ou les fables de M. Gay traduites de l'anglois : manuscript, [17--]
Houghton Library
Pepusch, John Christopher, 1667-1752. Music score of Polly : Gay : manuscript, [1777-1782]
Houghton Library
Gay, John, 1685-1732. Autograph letter signed : [The Hague], to Charles Ford, 1714 July 6.
Pierpont Morgan Library.
Garrick, David, 1717-1779. Scene by David Garrick for The beggar's opera by John Gay [manuscript], [18th century].
Folger Shakespeare Library
Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. The beggar's opera [microform], op. 43 : a ballad-opera in three acts by John Gay (1728) : realized from the original airs / by Benjamin Britten.
New York Public Library System, NYPL
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. A Receipt to make a Soupe By Mr. Pope to Dean Swift : poem : copy written in the hand of John Gay.
Pierpont Morgan Library.
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Hark ye pretty warbling : Acis & Galatea.
University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Library
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. So wie die Taube / Händel.
University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library
Barnett, Carol, 1949-. Dance and sing / [music by] Carol Barnett ; [words] by John Gay.
New York Public Library System, NYPL
Price, Jill. Partie of dance #2 : a dance suite from A & G, an American opera / composer: Jill Price, American ; lyricist: John Gay, English (from his 1732 production of Acis & Galatea).
New York Public Library System, NYPL
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Serenata Acis und Galatea von Haendel. Mozarts Originalhandschrift der von ihm instrumentieren.
HCL Technical Services, Harvard College Library
Fox, George, 1854?-1902. The beggar's opera : arranged for Mr. Sims Reeves / by George Fox : manuscript, 1885.
Houghton Library
Gay, John, 1685-1732. The begger's opera, 1730?
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Price, Jill. Partie of dance #1 : a dance suite from A & G, an American opera / composer: Jill Price, American ; lyricist: John Gay, English (from his 1732 production of Acis & Galatea).
New York Public Library System, NYPL
Herd, David, 1732-1810. Theatrical notes on Scottish drama [manuscript], 1796.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Gay, John, 1685-1732. [Poetical miscellany]
University of California, Los Angeles
Brackenridg, Helen. [Cookery manuscript and literary miscellanies]
University of California, Los Angeles
Gay, John, 1685-1732. Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to William Fortescue, [1713] Oct. 5.
Pierpont Morgan Library.
Gay, John, 1685-1732. Letters, 1730-32. [microform].
University of Cincinnati - Main Campus, Langsam Library
Jephson, Robert, 1736-1803. A tour to Celbridge, by Dr. S. Johnson, circa 1776 / By Robert Jephson Esq.
Yale University, Lewis Walpole Library
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Benjamin Motte, [1728/9 Jan. 13].
Pierpont Morgan Library.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Autograph letters signed (6) : "Twitnam," to Benjamin Motte, [1727] June 30-1732 Aug. 16.
Pierpont Morgan Library.
Davis, Arthur Kyle, 1897-1972. Virginia! (mimeograph typescript), [manuscript], 1968 ca.
University of Virginia. Library
[Commonplace book]; Liverpool, 1789.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to Benjamin Motte, [1728/9 Mar. 8].
Pierpont Morgan Library.
Locker-Lampson, Warburg, Grimson autograph album, 1552-1890.
Houghton Library
Parnell, Thomas, 1679-1718. Autograph letter signed : Binfield, to Charles Ford, 1714 Sept. 2.
Pierpont Morgan Library.
Houghton Library printed book provenance file, E-K.
Houghton Library
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Benjamin Motte, [1732] Aug. 16.
Pierpont Morgan Library.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Autograph letter signed : [London], to Charles Ford, Wednesday [1718?].
Pierpont Morgan Library.
Dufour, Camilla, d. 1846,. Autograph letter from Camilla (Dufour) Sarratt to [James] Winston [manuscript], 1822 March 9.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 1571-1896
The University of Nottingham
Gay, Ernest Lewis, 1874-1916. Papers, 1901-1914.
Houghton Library
Fraser, Claud Lovat, 1890-1921. Letters : London, Buntingford, to Alistair N. Tayler, 1920-1921.
Bryn Mawr College, Mariam Coffin Canaday Library
Reed, Isaac, 1742-1807,. Autograph letter signed from Isaac Reed to [Ralph Griffiths, the editor of the Monthly Review (?)] [manuscript], 1791(?) April 14.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Gay, Ernest Lewis, 1874-1916. The Ernest Gay collection of John Gay material. Manuscript.
Houghton Library
Davis, Arthur Kyle, 1897-1972. Virginia! (mimeograph typescript), 1968 ca.
University of Virginia. Library
Fortescue, William, 1687-1749. Incomplete manuscript (from a letter?), [n.d.].
Pierpont Morgan Library.
[Collection of poetry], [circa 1725].
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
John Gay : pamphlet collection.
HCL Technical Services, Harvard College Library
Gay, Ernest Lewis, 1874-1916,. Gay search : manuscript, [ca. 1905]
Houghton Library
Rowe, Richard, fl. 1797. Calligraphy exercise book, 1797.
Yale Center for British Art
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Collection of autograph letters and documents signed, 1708-1768 1714-1744.
Pierpont Morgan Library.
Cercello, Marchioness de. Portraits, 1806.
Yale University, Lewis Walpole Library
Grubb, John, 18th/19th cent. Autograph letter signed from John Grubb, Drury Lane, London, to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1798 November 23.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).
Houghton Library
Herman Buchman papers, 1939-1990
The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.
Coats, Joseph. Recipe book, account book, and notebook.
University of Pennsylvania Library
Schultz, William Eben. Gay's Beggar's Opera : New Haven, 1923.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Laing, David, 1793-1878. Letter: 1859 Feb. 1, Signet Library, Edin. / D. Laing.
University of Edinburgh - Main Library, Edinburgh University Library
Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. The threepenny opera / [music by] Kurt Weill ; [libretto and lyrics] by Bertolt Brecht ; in a new translation by Wallace Shawn ; based on Elisabeth Hauptmann's German translation of John Gay's The beggar's opera, 2006.
New York Public Library System, NYPL
Harvard University. Autograph File, G. 1641-2009.
Houghton Library
Britten Manuscripts: Musical compositions of Benjamin Britten, 1925-1979
British Library: Music Collections
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Autograph letter signed : [London], to Benjamin Motte, [1727] June 30.
Pierpont Morgan Library.
Queensberry, Catherine Douglas, Duchess of, 1700 or 1-1777. Letter : to George II, [1729]
Houghton Library
Schultz, William Eben. Gay's Beggar's Opera : New Haven, 1923.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Fonds Edward Gordon Craig
Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des arts du spectacle
Cumby, William. [Commonplace book], [ca. 1835].
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Early American playbills, 1750-1812.
Harvard Theater Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Related names in SNAC
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Barnett, Carol, 1949-
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Bentinck family, Earls of Portland
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Binns, Thomas.
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Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
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Buchman, Herman
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Carter, Elliott, 1908-
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Cercello, Marchioness de.
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Colman, George, 1732-1794.
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Craig, Edward Gordon (1872-1966)
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Cumby, William
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Davis, Arthur Kyle, 1897-1972.
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Dufour, Camilla, d. 1846,
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Ford, Charles, 1682-1743,
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Fortescue, William, 1687-1749.
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Fraser, Claud Lovat, 1890-1921.
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Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
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Gay, Ernest Lewis, 1874-1916.
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Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773.
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Grubb, John, 18th/19th cent.
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Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.
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Herd, David, 1732-1810.
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Jephson, Robert, 1736-1803.
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
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Laing, David, 1793-1878.
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Livingston, Flora Virginia Milner, 1862-
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Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895
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Mellefont, Catherine,
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Parnell, Thomas, 1679-1718.
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Playfair, Nigel, Sir, 1874-1934.
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Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
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Price, Jill.
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Queensberry, Catherine Douglas, Duchess of, 1700 or 1-1777.
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Ramsay, Allan, 1686-1758.
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Reed, Isaac, 1742-1807,
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Rowe, Richard, fl. 1797.
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Schultz, William Eben.
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Steele, Robert.
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Steele, Thomas.
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Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
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Tonson, Jacob, 1656?-1736.
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Watts, John, d. 1763.
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Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950.
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Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
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Houghton Library.
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Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith, London, England)
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Subjects:
- Animals in literature
- Ballad operas
- Beggar's opera
- Contracts
- Copyright licenses
- English literature
- English poetry
- Fables
- Fables, English
- Fables, French
- French literature 18th century
- French poetry
Occupations:
- Librettists
Places:
- Great Britain (as recorded)
- St Helena, South Atlantic Ocean (as recorded)
- Barnet, Hertfordshire (as recorded)
- Venice, Republic of, Europe (as recorded)
- Annobon, Equatorial Guinea (as recorded)
- Algiers, Africa (as recorded)
Variant Names
Gay, John
Gay, John, 1685-1732, poet, playwright
جي، جون، 1685-1732
Gay, Mr., 1685-1732
ゲイ, ジョン
Gay, Johann 1685-1732
جون جي، 1685-1732
Ge, Ioann 1685-1732
Gay, ... 1685-1732
Gay, Mister 1685-1732
Gay, Jeremy
