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… 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 …

… survive. A semi-reliable contemporary recorded that it was first convened at the Cat and Fiddle Tavern on Gray’s Inn Lane, owned by a pastry-maker named Christopher (Kit) Cat (or Catling) and that the meetings dined on mutton pies known … (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1972), p. 148. Subscription music recitals were similarly organised at the Drury Lane and Lincoln’s Inn theatres during 1703-04, and Kit-Cat subscription funded a revival of three plays at the Queen’s …