Gay, John | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Bibliography
Price, Cecil. "Gay, Goldsmith, Sheridan, and Other Eighteenth-Century Dramatists." In English Drama (excluding Shakespeare). Select Bibliographical Guides, edited by Stanley Wells, pp. 199-212. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975.
Bibliographic essay provides a short overview of earlier works on Gay; includes citations for general reference.
Biographies
Dearing, Vinton A. "The Life of Gay." In his John Gay: Poetry and Prose, pp. 1-16. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974.
Dearing follows Gay's literary and court career, connecting events in his personal life to the works he was writing when they occurred.
Irving, William Henry. John Gay: Favorite of the Wits. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1940, 317 p.
The first important modern biography of Gay. Attempts to distance Gay from his earlier reputation as a second-class writer.
Melville, Lewis...
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