Life
1720-1777; actor-dramatist; his piece ridiculing the Methodists, The
Minor, a failure when first given in Dublin (1760), but successful
when given in London in an enlarged from; acted in co-lessee Murphy’s
plays at Drury lane, and played Peter Paragraph in his own Orators
(1762); by repute, a practical joke at a party cost him his leg; he received
a patent for a theatre in Westminster though the Duke of York in return;
built the new Haymarket, 1767, and held it till 1777; William Jackson
was the Dr Viper of The Capuchin (1776) - an adaptation of A
Trip to Calais - in which the Duchess of Kingston is also satirised.
DNB
Works
George Taylor, ed., Plays by Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy (Cambridge
UP 1984).
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Criticism
J. F. Molloy, Romance of Irish Stage (1897).
G. C. Duggan, The Stage Irishman (1937).
Christopher J. Wheatley, ‘"Our own good, plain, old Irish English": Charles Macklin Cathal McLaughlin) and Protestant Convert Accommodations’, in Bullán: An Irish Studies Journal, 4, 1 (Autumn 1998), pp.81-102.
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Notes
Eric Stevens Books (1992) lists The Dramatic Works of Samuel
Foote, Esq., P. Valliant et al, [eds.] ca. 1786, 4 vols. bound in
2, prints 19 plays, variously dated.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco): 2002