Author:Samuel Foote

Samuel Foote
(1720–1777)

Samuel Foote

Works

• The Great Panjandrum, a poem written in 1755 to test the memory of the actor Charles Macklin, who had claimed he could read any paragraph once through and then recite it verbatim.
• The Author (1757)
• The Bankrupt (1776)
• The Knights
• The Liar
• Minor

Works about Foote

• "Foote, Samuel," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Foote, Samuel," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Foote, Samuel," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)