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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ian Kelly (actor) (redirect from Mr Foote's Other Leg (biography))
Mr Foote’s Other Leg. Kelly has published biographies of Antonin Careme (2004), Beau Brummell (2005), Casanova (2008), and Samuel Foote (Mr. Foote's Other...
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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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