University of Virginia Library

A Selection of Useful Works:

• Hazlitt, W. Lectures on the English Poets. London, 1818.
• Thackeray, W.M. English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century. London, 1853.
• Melville, L. Life and Letters of John Gay. London, 1921.
• Kidson, F. The Beggar's Opera: Its Predecessors and Successors. London, 1922.
• Schultz, William Eben. Gay's Beggar's Opera: Its Content, History, and Influence. New Haven: YUP, 1923.
• Irving, W.H. John Gay's London. Cambridge, MA: HUP, 1928.
• Sherwin, O. Mr. Gay: Being a Picture of the Life and Times of the Author of The Beggar's Opera. New York, 1929.
• Bateson, F.W. English Comic Drama, 1700-1750. London, 1929.
• Empson, William. Some Versions of Pastoral. London, 1936.
• Gaye, P. Fenwick. John Gay: His Place in the Eighteenth Century. London, 1938.
• Irving, W.H. John Gay: Favorite of the Wits. Durham, NC: UNCP, 1940.
• Herbert, A.P. Mr. Gay's London. London, 1948.
• Armens, S.M. John Gay: Social Critic. New York, 1954.
• Forsgren, A. John Gay: Poet of "A Lower Order." Stockholm, 1964.
• Guerinot, J.V., and Rodney D Jilg. Context 1: The Beggar's Opera. New York: Archon, 1976.
• Fuller, John, ed. John Gay: Dramatic Works. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1983. With glossary in second volume.