Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

Foote, Samuel | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Chatten, Elizabeth N. Samuel Foote. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1980, 161 p.

Extensive study of all of Foote's works, major and minor, including a survey of critical reception.

Conolly, L. W. “The ‘English Aristophanes’ and an Eighteenth Century Welshman: Samuel Foote's The Author.The Anglo-Welsh Review 25, no. 56 (1976): 64-72.

Study of Foote's relationship to Mr. Apreece, whom he lampooned in his play The Author.

Hughes, Leo. “Theatre and the Art of Caricature.” In British Theatre and Other Arts, 1660-1800, pp. 230-32. Washington: Folger Books, 1984.

Brief study of some of Foote's characters and the targets who spawned them.

Murphy, Mary C. Introduction to Samuel Foote's Taste and The Orators: A Modern Edition with Five Essays, pp. i-lxii. Annapolis, Md.: United States Navy Press, 1982.

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