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Foote, Samuel
Foote, Samuel (1720–77), actor and dramatist, was particularly successful in comic mimicry; acting in his own plays, he caricatured his fellow actors and other well-known persons, often savagely. The Minor (1760), a satire directed against the Methodists in which Foote mimicked Whitefield as ‘Dr Squintum’, was his most powerful work. In The Maid of Bath (1771) Foote pilloried Squire Long, the unscrupulous sexagenarian lover of Miss Elizabeth Linley, who was to marry Sheridan. The Nabob (1772) was aimed at the directors of the East India Company and Piety in Patterns (1773) ridiculed sentimental comedy and Richardson's Pamela. He was known to his contemporaries as ‘the English Aristophanes’.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Foote, Samuel." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Foote, Samuel." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-FooteSamuel.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Foote, Samuel." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-FooteSamuel.html |
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