Skip to search
Skip to main content
Skip to first result
Search
You Searched For
Subject (Name)
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Search Results
Creator:
Call Number:
LWL Mss Vol. 169
Image Count:
16
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, in Jephson's hand, of a parody of Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Using florid language throughout, the author explains his satiety with Dublin and determines to explore the countryside. Traveling with Dean Marlay...
Description:
Robert Jephson (1736-1803), playwright and parodist, was born in Dublin. His first play, Braganza, was performed in 1775, with an epilogue by Horace Walpole. His most commercially successful play, performed 37 times between 1781 and 1798, was The Co...
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland., Celbridge (Ireland), and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732., Jephson, Robert, 1736-1803., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784., Marlay, Richard, d. 1802., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
English wit and humor, Parodies, English, Poverty, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A tour to Celbridge, by Dr. S. Johnson, [ca. 1776]
Creator:
Published / Created:
[1776?]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B K41
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Last benefit, by particular desire of several ladies & gentlemen, Mr. Massey, & company's, night. The whole to be accompany'd by the assembly band of music
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Theatre Margate
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At the theatre Margate. On Friday the 10th of October, will be presented The beggar's opera ... : to which will be added, a pantomime entertainment call'd The funeral, or, Harlequin among the rocks ...
Published / Created:
[1778]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B K41
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
For the benefit of Mrs. Wilson. By his Majesty's servants
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732. and Wycherley, William, 1640-1716.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At the theatre in Canterbury, on Monday next, August 10, 1778, will be presented (with the additional songs composed last season by Dr. Arne) The beggar's opera ... : to which will be revived a comedy of two acts, called The country wife, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, with universal applause ...
Published / Created:
[1776?]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B K41
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
By his Majesty's servants
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Printed by Smith and Son
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732. and Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At the theatre in Canterbury, this present evening, July 30, will be presented, The beggar's opera ... : to which will be added, a farce, called The mock doctor ...
Creator:
Published / Created:
[1759]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B W65
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
This present Friday, being the 27th of July, will be presented The beggar's opera ...
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Theatre in Portsmouth
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At the theatre in Portsmouth, this present Friday, being the 27th of July, will be presented The beggar's opera ... : to which will be added (by particular desire) a farce, call'd, The author ... tickets to be had at the Fountain...and Two Blue Posts, on the point
Creator:
Published / Created:
[1759]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B W65
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
This present Friday, being the 29th of June ...
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Theatre in Portsmouth
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732. and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At the theatre in Portsmouth, this present Friday, being the 29th of June, will be presented the Beggar's Opera ... : to which will be added a dramatick satire, call'd, Lethe: or, Aesop in the shades ... tickets to be had at the Fountain ... and Two Blue Posts, on the point
Creator:
Published / Created:
[1758]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B W65
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
This present Tuesday, being the 25th of July, will be presented the Beggar's opera
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Theatre in Portsmouth
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At the theatre in Portsmouth, this present Tuesday, being the 25th of July, will be presented the Beggar's opera ... : to which will be added a comedy of two acts, call'd The author ... tickets to be had at the Fountain ... and the Navy Coffee-House near the dock gates. No person to be admitted behind the scenes
Creator:
Published / Created:
[1 July 1790]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either sid...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1st, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall, London
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Beggar's Opera, Act III "When my hero in Court appears, &c." From the original picture in the collection of his Grace the Duke of Leeds / [graphic]
