John Durant Breval (1680?–1738)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Author
  • Poet
  • Playwright

Names

  • John Durant Breval
  • Joseph Gay (pseud.)

John Durant Breval, author. Joseph Gay is a pseudonym Edmund Curll applied to works actually written by John Durant Breval and by Francis Chute (Foxon) in order to capitalize on sales to buyers who mistook his work for that of John Gay (1685–1732).

—Allison Muri