10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHAT-D'YE-CALL-IT»
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1
The
what D'
ye Call it: A Tragi-comi-pastoral Farce, as
it
A Tragi-comi-pastoral Farce, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane
John Gay. mil! 1 th: Kin; luv: ml tion thy hat laymay Nettle. No, no, I have what's
worth twenty on't : The P_ope's Mitre, that my Maiter Sir Roger feiz'd, when they ...
2
John Gay and the London Theatre
These country things would reappear in his comic pastoral, The Shepherd's
Week, which he was working on while he was composing The Wife of Bath, and
in his farce afterpiece, The What D'Ye Call It. The What D'Ye Call It is a
performance ...
3
The
what D'
ye Call it: A Tragi-comi-pastoral Farce. By Mr. Gay
A Tragi-comi-pastoral Farce. By Mr. Gay John Gay. the PROLOGUE, Spoken by
Mr. Pinkethman. rJ^HE Entertainment of this Night — or Day, This Somethings or
this Nothing of a 'Play, Which strives to f lease all Tatas es at a time, With Ghosts
...
4
Poems on Several Occasions: Rural sports. The fan. The ...
Tet that I might avoid the cavils and mifre- presentations of severe Criticks, I have
not call'd it a Tragedy, Comedy, Pastoral, or Farce, but left the name entirely
undetermin'd in the doubtful appellation of the What d'ye call it, which name I ...
5
"Deep Play": John Gay and the Invention of Modernity
5 Village Mumming on an Urban Stage: The What-d 'Ye-Call-It and Three Hours
After Marriage Gay composed two of his early satires, The What-d'Ye-Call-It (
1715) and Three Hours After Marriage (1717) along the lines of traditional
mumming ...
6
Rural sports, a Georgic. The fan, a poem (3 bks.). The ...
John Gay. Lur'd by the silver hilt, amid the swarm, The subtil artist will thy side
disarm. Nor is the flaxen wig with safety worn ; High on the shoulder, in a basket
born, v Lurks the sly boy ; whose hand to rapine bred, Plucks off the curling
honours ...
7
Elegant epistles: being a copious collection of familiar and ...
There is a sixpenny criticism lately published upon the tragedy of What-d'ye- call-
it, wherein he with much judgment and learning calls me a blockhead, and Mr.
Pope a knave. His grand charge is against the Pilgrim's Progress being read, ...
8
Poems on Several Occasions: By Mr. John Gay. ...
Tet that J might avoid the cavils and misrepresentations of severe Criticks, I have
not caWd it a Tragedy, Comedy^ Pastoral, or Farce, but left the name entirely
undetermined in the doubtful appellation of the What d'ye call it, which name I ...
9
The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory ...
He has since risen very much in his criticisms, and, after assaulting Homer, made
a daring attack upon the What-d'ye-call-it '. Yet is there not a proclamation issued
for the burning of Homer and the Pope by the common hangman ; nor is the ...
10
Women, Nationalism, and the Romantic Stage: Theatre and ...
Yet that I might avoid the cavils and misinterpretations of severe criticks, I have
not call'd it a tragedy, comedy, pastoral, or farce, but left the name entirely
undetermin'd in the doubtful appellation of the What d'ye call it. John Gay, preface
to The ...
