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Recent scholarship (with acknowledgement to the MLA CD-ROM):

• Beckwith, Charles E. "The Languages of Gay's Trivia." Eighteenth-Century Life. Oct. 1986, v. 10 (3).
• Bender, John "The Novel and the Rise of the Penitentiary: Narrative and Ideology in Defoe, Gay, Hogarth, and Fielding." Stanford Literature Review. Spring 1984, v. 1(1) p. 55-84.
• Berry, Reginald. "Absurder Projects: Scriblerus, Chaucer, and the Discommodities of Marriage." English Studies in Canada. Summer 1981, v. 7(2) p. 141-155.
• Bloom, Harold "John Gay's The Beggar's Opera." Chelsea, New York 1988 viii, 143 p. Series: Modern Critical Interpretations.
• Bywaters, David A. "Political Parallel in Augustan England." Dissertation Abstracts International. Sept. 1985, v. 46(3) p. 704A.
• Copley, Stephen; Haywood, Ian. "Luxury, Refuse, and Poetry: John Gay's Trivia." Lewis, Peter, ed., John Gay and the Scriblerians. London: Vision, 1988.
• Denning, Michael. "Beggars and Thieves." Literature and History. Spring 1982, v. 8(1) p. 41-55.
• DeRitter, William Jones, Jr. "Authors and Audiences: The Development of Eighteenth-Century Literary Forms." Dissertation Abstracts International. June 1989, v. 49(12) p. 3731A.
• Downie, J. Alan. "Gay's Politics." Lewis, Peter, ed., John Gay and the Scriblerians. London: Vision, 1988.
• Downie, J. Alan. "Walpole, 'the Poet's Foe'." Black, Jeremy, ed., Britain in the Age of Walpole. New York: St. Martin's, 1984.
• Duckworth, Alistair M. "Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England." English Language Notes. June 1989, v. 26(4) p. 80-85.
• Dugaw, Dianne. "Folklore and John Gay's Satire." SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. Summer 1991, v. 31(3) p. 515-33.
• Fischer, John Irwin. "Never on Sunday: John Jay's The Shepherd's Week." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. 1981, v. 10 p. 191-203.
• Gillespie, Norman. "An Operatic Version of John Gay's Dione." English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature. Oct. 1984, v. 65(5) p. 420-425.
• Gillespie, Norman. "The Origins and Early History of 'Sally in Our Alley'." Review of English Studies: A Quarterly Journal of English Literature and the English Language. May 1984, v. 35(138) p. 203-208.
• Hammond, Brean S. "'A Poet, and a Patron, and Ten Pound': John Gay and Patronage." Lewis, Peter, ed., John Gay and the Scriblerians. London: Vision, 1988.
• Hammond, Brean S. "Scriblerian Self-Fashioning." Yearbook of English Studies. 1988, v. 18 p. 108-124.
• Hannaford, Stephen "The Shape of Eighteenth-Century English Drama." Theatre Survey: The American Journal of Theatre History. Nov. 1980, v. 21(2) p. 93-103.
• Hassler, Donald M. "Dhalgren, The Beggar's Opera, and Georgic: Implications for the Nature of Genre." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Winter 1989, v. 30(4) p. 332-338.
• Judy, David Jones. "A Reconstruction of the First Production of The Beggar's Opera." Dissertation Abstracts International. May 1983, v. 43(11) p. 3603A-3604A.
• Kephart, Carolyn ."An Unnoticed Forerunner of 'The Beggar's Opera'." Music and Letters. July-Oct. 1980, v. 61(3-4) p. 266-271.
• Kievitt, Frank David "Three Times Three Penny: Brecht's Adaptations of The Beggar's Opera." Mid-Hudson Language Studies. 1984, v. 7 p. 57-63.
• Kirk, Eugene. "Gay's 'Roving Muse': Problems of Genre and Intention in Trivia." English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature. June 1981, v. 62(3) p. 259-270.
• Lamoine, Georges. "Note sur la parodie de la pastorale dans The Beggar's Opera." Etudes Anglaises: Grande-Bretagne, Etats-Unis. Jan.-March 1990, v. 43(1) p. 100-102.
• Lewis, Peter. "The Beaux' Stratagem and The Beggar's Opera." Notes and Queries. June 1981, v. 28 (226)(3) p. 221-224.
• Lewis, Peter. "The Beggar's Rags to Rich's and Other Dramatic Transformations." Lewis, Peter, ed., John Gay and the Scriblerians. London: Vision, 1988.
• Lewis, Peter. "'An irregular dog': Gay's Alternative Theatre." Yearbook of English Studies. 1988, v. 18 p. 231-246.
• Lindfors, Bernth "Begging Questions in Wole Soyinka's Opera Wonyosi." Ariel: A Review of International English Literature. July 1981, v. 12(3) p. 21-33.
• Lindgren, Lowell. "Camilla and The Beggar's Opera." Philological Quarterly. Winter 1980, v. 59(1) p. 44-61.
• McWhir, Anne. "The Wolf in the Fold: John Gay in The Shepherd's Week and Trivia." SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. Summer 1983, v. 23(3) p. 413-423.
• Michon, Jacques. "Genese d'un chef-d'oeuvre: The Beggar's Opera." Willems, Michele, ed., Aspects du theatre anglo-saxon. Rouen: Pubs. de l'Universite de Rouen, 1981.
• Morgan, Paula M. "E. L. Davenport and Black-Eyed Susan: A Musical Episode in Nineteenth-Century Theatre." Princeton University Library Chronicle. Autumn 1986, v. 48(1) p. 21-37.
• Noble, Yvonne, and Nicholas Temperley. "The Beggar's Opera (1953 and 1983)." Eighteenth-Century Life. May 1986, v. 10(2) p. 109-117.
• Noble, Yvonne. "John Gay's Monument." Lewis, Peter, ed., John Gay and the Scriblerians. London: Vision, 1988.
• Noble, Yvonne. "Sex and Gender in Gay's Achilles." Lewis, Peter, ed., John Gay and the Scriblerians. London: Vision, 1988.
• Pavlopoulos, Francoise. "Musique et violence dans l'Angleterre de dix-huitieme siecle." Morvan, Alain, ed., Savoir et violence en Angleterre du XVIe au XIXe siecle. Lille: Univ. de Lille III; 1987.
• Rogers, Pat. "Gay and the World of Opera." Lewis, Peter, ed., John Gay and the Scriblerians. London: Vision, 1988.
• Sabor, Peter. "Wole Soyinka and the Scriblerians." World Literature Written in English. Spring 1989, v. 29(1) p. 43-51.
• Salmon, Richard J. "Two Operas for Beggars: A Political Reading. Theoria: A Journal of Studies in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Oct. 1981, v. 57 p. 63-81.
• Shearer, Ellen Bond "Ovid and Scriblerus: An Exploration of Techniques and Themes from the Metamorphoses of Ovid in the Works of Pope, Swift, Gay, Arbuthnot, and Parnell." Dissertation Abstracts International. July 1981, v. 42(1) p. 230A-231A.
• Spacks, Patricia Meyer. "John Gay's Dramatic Works." Papers on Language and Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature. Winter 1986, v. 22(1) p. 100-104.
• Spielman, Hans R. "Zum Sensibility-Begriff im englischen fruhburgerlichen." Drama Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht. 1984, v. 17(2) p. 97-117.
• Steiner, Peter. "Cops or Robbers: Vaclav Havel's Beggar's Opera." Harris, Jane Gary, ed., American Contributions to the Tenth International Congress of Slavists, Sofia, September 1988: Literature. Columbus, OH: Slavica, 1988.
• Tasch, Peter A. "The Beggar's Opera and The Libertine." Notes and Queries Mar. 1989, v. 36 (234)(1) p. 52.
• Tonkin, Humphrey. «De Trigrosa opero al Trigrosa romano.» Lit. Foiro. Dec. 1985, v. 16(94) p. 9-16.
• Voisine, Jacques. "La Condition feminine dans L'Opera du mendiant; Actes du colloque tenu a Paris, les 24 et 25 octobre 1975." La Femme en Angleterre et dans les Colonies americaines aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles. Lille: Pub. de l'Universite de Lille III, 1976.
• Walker, John. "Hogarth's Painting 'The Beggar's Opera': Cast and Audience at the First Night." Wilmerding, John, ed., Essays in Honor of Paul Mellon: Collector and Benefactor. Washington, DC: National Gallery, 1986.
• Weisstein, Ulrich. "Brecht's Victorian Version of Gay: Imitation and Originality in the Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera)." Mews, Siegfried, comp., Critical Essays on Bertolt Brecht. Boston: Hall, 1989.
• Wertheim, Albert. "Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum in the New World: John Gay and Peter Hacks." Maske und Kothurn: Internationale Beitrage zur Theaterwissenschaft. 1981, v. 27(2-3) p. 176-184.
• Williams, Carolyn D. "The Migrant Muses: A Study of Gay's Later Drama." Lewis, Peter, ed., John Gay and the Scriblerians. London: Vision, 1988.
• Wolf, Janet Sorlien "The Augustan Mock Form, 1678-1743: A Reconsideration of Some Major Examples." Dissertation Abstracts International. Aug. 1985, v. 46(2) p. 435A.
• Wood, Nigel. "Gay and the Ironies of Rustic Simplicity." Lewis, Peter, ed., John Gay and the Scriblerians. London: Vision, 1988.
• Woodman, Tom. "'Vulgar Circumstance' and 'Due Civilities': Gay's Art of Polite Living in Town." Lewis, Peter, ed., John Gay and the Scriblerians. London: Vision, 1988.
• Zach, Wolfgang. "Fascination and Scandal: On John Gay's Beggar's Opera and the Doctrine of Poetic Justice." Welch, Robert, ed., Bushrui, Suheil Badi ed., Literature and the Art of Creation. Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1988.