Le Médecin Malgré Lui
("The Doctor in spite of Himself"), written in 1666 by Molière.
Adapted into Henry Fielding as English by The Mock Doctor.
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Performance history in South Africa
Translations and adaptations
The Fielding English adaptation (See The Mock Doctor) produced in Cape Town on 15 November 1823.
Translated and adapted into Afrikaans as Dokter teen-wil-en-dank by Uys Krige in 1966, to mark the play's tricentenary, and the translation was produced by PACT in 1966. Krige's translation was published by Van Schaik in 1971 and was awarded the Akademieprys for translated work in 1972.
Sources
Bosman, 1928: pp.
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Sources
Bosman, 1928: pp.
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