John Gay
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John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.
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- The Beggar's Opera, Prologue - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Overture - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 1, Scene 1, Peachum's House: 2. Thro' All the Employments of Life - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 1, Scene 1, Peachum's House: 3. Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 1, Scene 1, Peachum's House: 5. If Love the Virgins Heart Invades - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 1, Scene 1, Peachum's House: 6. A Maid Is Like the Golden Ore - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 1, Scene 1, Peachum's House: 7. Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 1, Scene 1, Peachum's House: 8. Our Polly Is a Sad Slut - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 1, Scene 1, Peachum's House: 9. Can Love Be Controlled by Advice? - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 1, Scene 1, Peachum's House: 10. O Polly You Might Be Toyed or Kissed - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 1, Scene 1, Peachum's House: 11. I Like a Ship in Storms Was Tossed - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 1, Scene 1, Peachum's House: 12. A Fox May Steal Your Hens - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 1, Scene 1, Peachum's House: 13. O Ponder Well - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 1, Scene 1, Peachum's House: 15. Pretty Polly Say - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 1, Scene 1, Peachum's House: 16. My Heart Was so Free - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 1, Scene 1, Peachum's House: 17. Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 1, Scene 1, Peachum's House: 18. Oh What Pain It Is to Part - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 2, Scene 1, A Tavern Near Newgate: 20. Fill Every Glass - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 2, Scene 1, A Tavern Near Newgate: 21. Let Us Take the Road - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 2, Scene 1, A Tavern Near Newgate: 22. If the Heart of a Man - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 2, Scene 1, A Tavern Near Newgate: 24. Youth's the Season - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 2, Scene 1, A Tavern Near Newgate: 26. Before the Barn Door - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 2, Scene 1, A Tavern Near Newgate: 27. At the Tree I Shall Sufferr - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 2, Scene 2, Newgate Prison: 30. Man May Escape from Rope and Gun - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 2, Scene 2, Newgate Prison: 31. How Cruel Are the Traitors - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 2, Scene 2, Newgate Prison: 33. When You Censure the Age - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 2, Scene 2, Newgate Prison: 35. How Happy Could I Be with Either - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 2, Scene 2, Newgate Prison: 36. I'm Bubbled I'm Bubbled - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 2, Scene 2, Newgate Prison: 37. Cease Your Funning - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 3, Scene 1, A Gaming House: 41.The Modes of the Court so Common Are Grown - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 3, Scene 1, A Gaming House: 43. In the Days of My Youth - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 3, Scene 1, A Gaming House: 45. Entrance of Lucy - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 3, Scene 1, A Gaming House: 46. I'm Like a Skiff on the Ocean Tost - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 3, Scene 1, A Gaming House: 47. Come, Sweet Lass - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 3, Scene 1, A Gaming House: 48. Hither, Dear Husband - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 3, Scene 1, A Gaming House: 49. Which Way Shall I Turn Me? - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 3, Scene 1, A Gaming House: 50. The Charge Is Prepared - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 3, Scene 2, The Condemned Hold: 52. Macheath's Soliloquy - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 3, Scene 2, The Condemned Hold: 53. Would I Might Be Hang'd - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- The Beggar's Opera, Act 3, Scene 2, The Condemned Hold: 54. Thus I Stand Like the Turk - The Beggar's Opera - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act I: Sinfonia - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act II: Wretched Lovers! (Chorus) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act I: O, The Pleasure Of The Plains! (Chorus) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act II: I Rage — I Melt — I Burn! (Polyphemus) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act I: Ye Verdant Plains (Galatea) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act II: O Ruddier Than The Cherry (Polyphemus) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act II: Whither, Fairest (Polyphemus, Galatea) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act I: Hush, Ye Pretty Warbling Quire! (Galatea) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act I: Where Shall I Seek The Charming Fair? (Acis) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act II: Cease To Beauty To Be Suing (Polyphemus) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act I: Stay, Shepherd, Stay! - Shepherd, What Art Thou Pursuing? (Damon) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act II: Would You Gain The Tender Creature (Coridon) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act I: Lo, Here My Love - Love In Her Eyes Sits Playing (Acis) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act II: His Hideous Love - Love Sounds Th'alarm (Acis) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act I: Oh, Didst Thou Know The Pains - As When The Dove (Galatea) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act II: Consider, Fond Shepherd (Damon) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act I: Happy We! (Galatea, Acis) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act II: Cease, Oh Cease (Galatea) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act II: The Flocks Shall Leave The Mountains (Galatea, Acis, Polyphemus) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act II: Help, Galatea! (Acis) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act II: Mourn, All Ye Muses! (Chorus) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act II: Must I My Acis Still Bemoan - 'Tis Done! (Galatea, Chorus) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act II: Heart, The Seat Of Soft Delight (Galatea) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act II: Galatea, Dry Thy Tears (Chorus) - Acis and Galatea - John Gay
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