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… 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 had admitted in an advertisement for the play that ‘two of my friends’ had helped in its creation, and the resulting rumour that this was in essence a satirical attack and first play by Pope brought up a concerted smear campaign by Pope ’s enemies with at least eight pamphlets appearing in the …
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