John Gay & the London Theatre

John Gay (1685-1732) is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera, which is the work by which he is mostly remembered, and the blurb calls it the most popular stage work of its century. Calhoun Winton's book places Gay within the London theatre of his time.

The book follows the afterlife of the opera's mix of popular music and satirical lyrics, which has kept reappearing in later stage works.

Readers of eighteenth-century drama and English literature, and those interested in how satire and popular song met on the London stage, are the book's natural audience.

Edition note: published by the University Press of Kentucky. ISBN-13: 9780813118321.