The Author (play)

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The Author is a comedy play by the British playwright Samuel Foote. It premiered on 5 February 1757, and was first published in that same year.^[1] In it, the impoverished poet, Cape, attempts to impress Arabella's brother Cadwallader in order to get his consent to marry her.