Background
Winton, Calhoun was born on January 21, 1927 in Fort Benning, Georgia, United States. Son of George Peterson and Dorothy (Calhoun) Winton.
(The Beggar's Opera, often referred to today as the first ...)
The Beggar's Opera, often referred to today as the first musical comedy, was the most popular dramatic piece of the eighteenth century―and is the work that John Gay (1685-1732) is best remembered for having written. That association of popular music and satiric lyrics has proved to be continuingly attractive, and variations on the Opera have flourished in this century: by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, by Duke Ellington, and most recently by Vaclav Havel. The original opera itself is played all over the world in amateur and professional productions. But John Gay's place in all this has not been well defined. His Opera is often regarded as some sort of chance event. In John Gay and the London Theatre, the first book-length study of John Gay as dramatic author, Calhoun Winton recognized the Opera as part of an entirely self-conscious career in the theatre, a career that Gay pursued from his earliest days as a writer in London and continued to follow to his death. Winton emphasizes Gay's knowledge of and affection for music, acquired, he argues, by way of his association with Handel. Although concentrating on Gay and his theatrical career, Winton also limns a vivid portrait of London itself and of the London stage of Gay's time, a period of considerable turbulence both within and outside the theatre. Gay's plays reflect in varying ways and degrees that social, political, and cultural turmoil. Winton's study sheds new light not only on Gay and the theatre, but also on the politics and culture of his era.
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Winton, Calhoun was born on January 21, 1927 in Fort Benning, Georgia, United States. Son of George Peterson and Dorothy (Calhoun) Winton.
Student, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1946. Bachelor, University of the South, 1948. Master of Arts, Vanderbilt University, 1950.
Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1954. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1955.
Instructor Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1954-1957. Assistant professor University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1957-1960. Assistant professor then associate professor, assistant dean Graduate School University Delaware, 1960-1967.
Professor department English University South Carolina, Columbia, 1967-1975, chairman department, 1970-1973. Professor University Maryland, College Park, 1975-1997, director Research Center for Humanities, 1988-1990, professor emeritus, since 1997. Captain United States Navy, 1944—1967.
Delaware Joint National Committee Languages, Washington, 1986—1990, Washington, 1995—1999.
(The Beggar's Opera, often referred to today as the first ...)
(Book by Winton, Professor Calhoun)
Board directors Maryland Federation Teachers, Baltimore, 1986—1989. President faculty guild University Maryland, 1986—1989. Member of Modern Language Association (member executive committee South Atlantic chapter 1977-1980), Literary Society Washington, American Antiquarian Society, E. Central Society 18th Century Studies (president 1987), American Society 18th Century Studies (founder since 1970), Association Princeton Graduate Alumni (executive board 1986-1990), Princeton Club (New York, Washington), Cosmos Club Washington.
Married Elizabeth Jefferys Myers, June 30, 1948. Children: Jefferys Hobart, William Calhoun.