John Gay, Trivia et autres vues urbaines

John Gay is nowadays remembered for the phenomenal and abiding success of The Beggar’s Opera (1728), the ballad opera set in London. The volume under review, a translation and edition of Gay’s other works related to London, eleven poems and the one-act play The Mohocks (1712), is a welcome initiati...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
الحاوية / القاعدة:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/1718,
المؤلف الرئيسي: Baker, John
التنسيق: Article ou chapitre numérique
اللغة:Anglais
منشور في: XVII-XVIII 2017
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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الملخص:John Gay is nowadays remembered for the phenomenal and abiding success of The Beggar’s Opera (1728), the ballad opera set in London. The volume under review, a translation and edition of Gay’s other works related to London, eleven poems and the one-act play The Mohocks (1712), is a welcome initiative, all the more so as none of them have been translated into French before.It is, in particular, surprising to learn that this translation by Jacques Carré is the first into French of Trivia: or, ...