Samuel Foote

Samuel Foote ( born January 27, 1720 in Truro, Cornwall, † October 21, 1777 in Dover ) was an English actor and playwright.

Life

Foote came from a wealthy family, his mother was Eleanor Goodere. After completing his schooling in Worcester itself Foote matriculated at Worcester College, Oxford, to study law. This study he dropped out after a few semesters without qualifications and went to London.

During this time, Foote succeeded his uncle Sir John Dinely Goodere when he was murdered by a relative. As Foote had squandered the inheritance altogether after a few years, he joined an acting troupe in London at. With 23 years of Foote debuted in 1744 as an actor in William Shakespeare's Othello, but was not quite successful. Over the years, the success was then not long in coming, which meant that Foote could become self-employed. In 1747 he founded the Royal Haymarket Theatre with its own ensemble and directed his own plays mostly there.

Especially in his comedies to Foote wrote his roles in the body, in which the satire was never too short. Well-known personalities he characterized skillfully by satirized it in his plays at the appropriate place. Thus Foote denounced but also satirically to social ills. After a complicated leg fracture with 45 years Foote could not occur as an actor. But he led his theater further, directed and wrote above all plays.

A total of 22 pieces have survived, mainly comedies and farces, which are primarily characterized by wit and temperament. To a minor scandal occurred in 1760, when Foote with The minor attacked the church in general and the Methodists; as 1772, when with The nabob the exploitation of India by the East India Company was denounced.

Samuel Foote led his Theatre -Royal until shortly before his death on October 21, 1777 in Dover. He died at age 57.

Works

  • The author
  • The bankrupt
  • The capuchin
  • Commisary
  • The cozeners
  • Devil upon two sticks
  • An Englishman in Paris
  • The Englishman returned from Paris (1756 )
  • The knights
  • Know your own mind
  • The liar
  • Maid of Bath
  • The mayor of Garratt
  • The minor
  • The nabob
  • The orators
  • The patron
  • Button. (1752 )
  • Three weeks after marriage
  • A trip to Calais
  • A treatise on the passions so far as the regard the stage. AMS Press, New York 1973, ISBN 0-404-02448-3 < Repr d ed London 1747 >
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