num_pages: 434
description: Moliere's comedies, which were so largely conveyed in _Sir PatientFancy_, have been a gold mine for many of our dramatists. From _LeMalade Imaginaire_ Miller took his _Mother-in-Law; or, The Doctor theDisease_, produced at the Haymarket, 12 February, 1734, and IsaacBickerstaffe, _Dr. Last in his Chariot_, produced at the same theatre 25August, 1769. In this farce Bickerstaffe further introduces the famousconsultation scene from _L'Amour Medecin_, a play which had been madeuse of by Lacy, _The Dumb Lady; or, The Farrier made a Physician_(1672); by Owen Swiney, _The Quacks; or, Love's the Physician_, producedat Drury Lane, 18 March, 1705; by Miller, _Art and Nature_, produced atthe same theatre 16 February, 1738; and in an anonymous one act piece,which is little more than a bare translation under the title _Love isthe Doctor_, performed once only at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 4 April, 1734.
language: English
title: WORKS OF APHRA BEHN: VOLUME IV, SENECA UNMASQUED
titlecomplete: WORKS OF APHRA BEHN: VOLUME IV, SENECA UNMASQUED (Volume 4)
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Ohio State University Press