The Liar

By Samuel Foote. A Farce in Two Acts. First performed 1762. According to Foote pretended to have taken the theme from Lope de Vega, but it was really founded on Richard Steele's adaptation of Pierre Corneille's Le Menteur.

Sources

http://www.nndb.com/people/431/000105116/

http://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Liar.html?id=oH4-AAAAYAAJ&redir_esc=y

Bosman, 1928: pp. 294,

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