No end to rogue books. Head's The English Rogue (1665), Norris' Life and
Death of the English Rogue (c. 1711), lots before, in between and
afterwards, with several detours through Defoe country--a vastly popular
genre, which popularity both Fielding and Gay were counting on.
My major field was the Restoration, because I couldn't imagine anything
more foreign, not to say inordinately sexy.
Mark
At 02:59 PM 4/21/2005, you wrote:
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>But hopefully someone pointed out to her that the Brecht/Weill is based on
>John Gay's Beggar's Opera, which he wrote when Fielding was past caring.
>Tho there are broad plot similarities from one rogue book to another.
>
>Mark
> >>
>
> OUCH!!! I should have remembered that.
>
>To be fair to the fair Carol, she was about to have to answer a question on
>Gay, not Fielding, so it's my mistake.
>
> The Dumb Bunny.
>
>(But it cascades from a proper rogue-text original via Gay after Fielding to
>end with Brecht.
>
>Or have I missed someone?
>
>Hogarth?
>
>Nah?
>
>R.)
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