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John Gay : A Profession of Friendship, Paperback / softback Book

John Gay : A Profession of Friendship Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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First published in 1995, David Nokes' major biography of John Gay (1685-1732) was the first full-length life of Gay for over fifty years, and drew on hitherto unpublished letters.

Presenting Gay as a complex character, torn between the hopes of court preferment and the assertion of literary independence, Nokes offers both a lively and accessible read for the non-specialist and a comprehensive scholarly study.

Best-known for The Beggar's Opera, Gay is here revealed as a contradictory figure.

Nokes argues that Gay's self-effacing and self-mocking literary persona was largely responsible for perpetuating an image of himself as a genial literary non-entity.

Often cast as a neglected genius, dependent on others, he in fact left a considerable fortune after his death.

Depicted by his friends as both a childlike innocent and a rakish ladies' man, he produced the most successful and subversive theatrical satire of his generation, and volumes of bestselling Fables.

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