Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… by individual members long after the club’s dissolution, but that clearly carry its spirit. John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera provides a fascinating insight into the nature and working of the ‘hints’ that were a staple of Scriblerian … circumstances it satirizes. While nobody but the Scriblerians was aware of Swift’s potential influence on The Beggar’s Opera , the case was very different for Three Hours After Marriage , Gay’s play that opened on Drury Lane in 1717. Gay … 1751, The Scribleriad , in which the hero is Martinus Scriblerus, and Henry Fielding, who presented his play The Welsh Opera as a tribute to the Scriblerians, also used the pen name ‘Scriblerus Secundus’. 2 . Qtd. in Joseph McMinn, …
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