SOURCE: "Chapter 18" and "Chapter 19," in John Gay: His Place in the Eighteenth Century, Collins, 1938, pp. 301-19; 320-45.
In the following excerpt, Fenwick Gaye focuses on the years 1727 and 1728, when Gay wrote and then premiered The Beggar's Opera. She pays particular attention to Gay's influential relationships with fellow Scriblerians Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, and to Gay's difficult relationship with the English court and government, including Prime Minister Robert Walpole.
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