Samuel Foote è stato un attore teatrale, drammaturgo e impresario teatrale inglese.
Deve la sua notorietà alla impronta satirica che diede ai suoi lavori diventando anche temuto dai personaggi politici suoi contemporanei.
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“He made him a hut, wherein he did put
The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.
O poor Robinson Crusoe!”
The Mayor of Garratt (1763, published 1764), Act i, Scene 1.
Percival Stockdale, The Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Percival Stockdale (1809), quoted in The Yale Book of Quotations, ed. Fred R. Shapiro, 2006, Yale University Press.
“Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.”
The Author (1757), Act ii. Compare: "Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred", Lord Byron, A Sketch; "I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar" William Congreve, Love for Love, Act ii, Scene 7.
The Knights (1748, published 1754), act ii.
