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Life and Letters of John Gay

by Lewis Melville

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  1. 1Title page
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Chapter I — 1685-1706 — Early Years
  4. 4Chapter II — 1706-1712 — Gay Commences Author
  5. 5Chapter III — 1713 — “Rural Sports,” “The Fan,” “The Wife of Bath,”…
  6. 6Chapter IV — 1714 — “The Shepherd’s Week,” “A Letter to a Lady”
  7. 7Chapter V — 1715-1719 — “The What D’ye Call It”…
  8. 8Chapter VI
  9. 9Chapter VII — 1724-1727 — “The Captives” — The First Series of “Fab…
  10. 10Chapter VIII — 1727 — “The Beggar’s Opera”
  11. 11Chapter IX — 1728-1729 — “Polly”
  12. 12Chapter X — 1729 — Correspondence
  13. 13Chapter XI — 1730 — Correspondence
  14. 14Chapter XII — 1731 — Correspondence
  15. 15Chapter XIII — 1732 — Death
  16. 16Appendix
  17. 17I
  18. 18II — A Chronological List of the Correspondence of John Gay
  19. 19III — Programme of the Revival of “The Beggar’s Opera,” Lyric Theat…

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