He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

Of mimicry and Methodists

Late in 1757 Foote faced himself in the guise of young actor and mimic Tate Wilkinson. Having turned his satire on Englishmen abroad and actresses at home Foote pointed his daggered pen towards himself other writers and the condition of the "starving writer" in his play The Author which premiered at Drury Lane on 5 February 1757. The Archbishop agreed on the condition that it should be publiSamuel Footed "Revised and Corrected by the Archbishop of Canterbury.