Samuel Foote (January 1720 – 21 October 1777) was a Cornish dramatist, actor and theatre manager. He was known for his comedic acting and writing, and...
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Samuel Foote (1720–1777) was a British dramatist, actor and theatre manager from Cornwall. Samuel Foote (or Foot) may refer to: Samuel J. Foote (1873–1936)...
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at New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Senator Samuel A. Foot (or Foote) and Eudocia Hull. As a child Foote was not known as a good student, but showed a...
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anti-austerity protests. In September and October 2015, he played Samuel Foote in Mr Foote's Other Leg at the Hampstead Theatre. It transferred to the Theatre...
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The Minor is a comedy play by the British playwright Samuel Foote. It originally premiered at Dublin's Crow Street Theatre on 28 January 1760 and was first...
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Mughal empire The Nabob, a play by the 18th-century English playwright Samuel Foote. Nabab (disambiguation) Navvab (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...
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One day, Harriet Beecher's uncle Samuel Foote, who was a brother of Harriet Beecher's late mother, Roxanna Foote, invited Harriet and older sister Catherine...
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Foote is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adam Foote (born 1971), Canadian ice hockey player Albert E. Foote (1846–1895) American...
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back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use. Samuel Foote acquired the lease in 1747, and in 1766 he gained a royal patent to play...
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educated in Truro and the inventor of the miner's safety lamp, and Samuel Foote, an actor and playwright from Boscawen Street. Truro's importance increased...
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well-known piece of literary nonsense by English dramatist and actor Samuel Foote in order to test the memory of a rival: "So she went into the garden...
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time, was written and published in 1775 by Samuel Foote. It is based on a piece of nonsense written by Foote ("And there were present the Picninnies, and...
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Panjandrum" was chosen by Shute as a reference to Samuel Foote's famous extempore nonsense paragraph (though Foote's term was actually "the grand Panjandrum")...
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primarily a batsman) Samuel Foote, a British actor who lost a leg in a horseriding accident in 1766, and made jokes on stage about "Foote and leg, and leg...
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the Company's activities and the behaviour of the Company's employees. Samuel Foote gave a satirical look at those men who had enriched themselves through...
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Samuel J. Foote (April 23, 1873 – December 8, 1936) was a lawyer and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Burin from 1919 to 1924 and from...
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The Nabob (category Plays by Samuel Foote)
The Nabob is a comedy play, a satire, by the English writer Samuel Foote. It was first performed at the Haymarket Theatre on 29 June 1772. The first interpretation...
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as a cook and valet, and one of his employers was the actor-manager Samuel Foote, who may have inspired him to take to the stage. He spent three years...
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The Lame Lover (category Plays by Samuel Foote)
The Lame Lover is a 1770 comedy play by the British writer Samuel Foote. Foote wrote the play while he was recovering from the amputation of his leg,...
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18th-century actor Samuel Foote. Both the biography and the play were written by Ian Kelly. The play's prelude is an attempt to steal Foote's amputated leg...
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The Maid of Bath (category Plays by Samuel Foote)
The Maid of Bath is a 1771 comedy play by the British actor-manager Samuel Foote. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London on 26 June 1771...
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Biography. Vol. 20. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Samuel Foote (1797). The Dramatic Works of Samuel Foote: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author. A....
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1826–1827). Foote was born in Gill, Massachusetts, as the eldest of the 11 children of Samuel Foote (1770–1848) and Sybil Doolittle Foote (1777–1832)...
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patron of the playwright and actor-manager Samuel Foote; it was while on a visit to Mexborough in 1766 that Foote lost a leg in a riding accident. He married...
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Doctor Moreau (1896). He appears in the play Mr Foote's Other Leg (2015) as a friend of the actor Samuel Foote. In Imogen Robertson's 2009 novel, Instruments...
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contemptible wonder in Cock-lane". Works such as The Orators (1762) by Samuel Foote, were soon available. Farcical poems such as Cock-lane Humbug were released...
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charges of bigamy. This brought him into contact with Samuel Foote. Chudleigh, Jackson and Foote would all become embroiled in a very public feud, which...
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by Herbert Croft. In a famous exchange with the actor Samuel Foote, Sandwich declared, "Foote, I have often wondered what catastrophe would bring you...
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licentious, was ridiculed as the character Kitty Crocodile by the comedian Samuel Foote in a play A Trip to Calais, which, however, he was not allowed to produce...
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Him Nicolás Fernandez de Moratín – Lucrecia Samuel Foote The Mayor of Garrett The Trial of Samuel Foote, Esq. for a Libel on Peter Paragraph Mary Latter...
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