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''[[The Anatomist, or The Sham Doctor]]'' is a farce in two acts by Edward Ravenscroft. Also referred to simply as ''[[The Anatomist]]''.
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''[[The Anatomist]]'' is a shortened title for ''[[The Anatomist, or The Sham Doctor]]''a farce in two acts by Edward Ravenscroft.  
  
  
== The original text ==
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'''See ''[[The Anatomist, or The Sham Doctor]]'''''
  
Originally a 3 act play, it was later condensed into this popular farce. According to L.M. Vincent (2005) it was based on Hauteroche's ''[[Crispin Médecin]]'' and was first produced at Lincoln's Inn Fields in November of 1696.  The play apparently was a stock afterpiece throughout the second half of the eighteenth century. It was first published in London by R Baldwin in 1697, and a number of times subsequently.
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1815: Performed by the [[Garrison Players]] in the [[African Theatre]] on 18 August as an afterpiece to ''[[John Bull or The Englishman's Fireside]]'' (George Colman the Younger) in Cape Town. The evening was a charity event under the patronage of the Governor,  and also intended to incite patriotism in the colony.
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1817: Performed by the [[Garrison Players]] in the [[African Theatre]] on 30 August 1817, with ''[[The Mountaineers]]'' (George Colman the Younger).
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp. 147, 150
 
 
 
L.M. Vincent "The Anatomist by Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827): The Play's the Thing". In ''Medical  History'', Vol 49(2) 2005 pp: 213–218.
 
 
 
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