The Jew and the Doctor

A farce in two acts by Thomas John Dibdin (1771 – 1841)

The original text

It had been written sometime in 1796-97, but - except for a benefit performance for Dibdin himself in the Maidstone Theatre - was not produced until in the winter of 1798-99 at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, and later in the Theatre-Royal, Dublin, and the Boston Theatre.

Published in London in 1800 and again in 1807.

Performance history in South Africa

1826: Presented in Cape Town on 6 May by the English Theatricals in the African Theatre, as afterpiece to Lovers' Vows (Von Kotzebue/Inchbald).

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_John_Dibdin

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dibdin,_Thomas_John_(DNB00)

https://library.villanova.edu/Find/Record/784973

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