ENGL 2P21 Lecture 5: Lecture 5.docx
13 Mar 2014
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John gay as a member of the scriblerians: shares concern about decline of independence of the writer: closing dialogue between the beggar and the player (act 3:17) Writer must please the taste of the town; opera has to be given a happy end so people can go and see it. Form of opera and applies it to different kind of context: beggars opera operas=elevated form, expensive. Sound must echo the sense (pope) must be something rational about our reading. Scotiish folk song; scotland was seen as a place that was less civilized, more wild (scottish and irish songs that people were familiar with=jarring for audience) Traditional elements of christian mass communion; gay alludes to this but uses it irrevelantly (scene of indulgence: loss of what matters/down"t matter; raises questions about their culture, certain form and expectation that is disrupted=sense of shock.
