Le Médecin Malgré Lui
("The Doctor in spite of Himself"), written in 1666 by Molière.
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Performance history in South Africa
Sources
Translations and adaptations
Adapted into English by Henry Fielding as The Mock Doctor, into a Dutch version entitled De Bespotlyke Docter and into Afrikaans as Dokter teen Wil en Dank by Uys Krige
The Mock Doctor by Henry Fielding - an English version
Adapted into English by Henry Fielding The Mock Doctor, or The Dumb Lady Cur'd. First produced on 23 June 1732 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Often referred to simply as The Mock Doctor
Performance history in South Africa
The English Theatricals company did the play in the African Theatre Cape Town on 15 November 1823 , as afterpiece to Rob Roy Macgregor, or Auld Lang Syne (Pocock).
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mock_Doctor
Bosman, 1928: 197,
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Dutch
The Dutch version is De Bespotlyke Docter.
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
Bosman, 1928: pp. 78,
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Dokter teen Wil en Dank by Uys Krige (Afrikaans)
Translated and adapted into Afrikaans as Dokter teen-wil-en-dank by Uys Krige in 1966, to mark the play's tricentenary, and
Performance history in South Africa
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: 197,
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Sources
Bosman, 1928: pp. ,
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