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Samuel Foote's Primitive Puppet-Shew

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Samuel N. Bogorad and
Robert Gale Noyes
Samuel N. Bogorad
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The University of Vermont
Robert Gale Noyes
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Late of Brown University
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Few names appear with greater frequency than Samuel Foote's in the accounts and annals of the later eighteenth-century English stage. Biographical sketches of various degrees of reliability, and collections of jokes, witticisms, and bon mots attributed to Foote began to appear in the year of his death; and there has been intermittent interest in the man and his works even to the present time. The only full-length attempts at biography in the twentieth century have been Percy Fitzgerald's Samuel Foote: A Biography (1910) and Simon Trefman's Sam. Foote, Comedian, 1720–1777 (1971), neither of which can be regarded as a definitive life.

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Theatre Survey , Volume 14 , Issue 1a: Samuel Foote's Primitive Puppet-Shew , Fall 1973, pp. 1 - 129
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