Mamamouchi
Subtitle: Or, The Citizen turn'd Gentleman: A Comedy acted at the Duke's Theatre
By: By Edw. Ravenscroft. Gent..
Contributors: Molière, 1622-1673.; Molière, 1622-1673.
Publisher: Printed for Thomas Dring, at the Corner of Chancery-Lane, over against the Inner Temple Gate in Fleetstreet
Published: 1675
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 74
Subjects: Duke's Theatre (London).
Other titles: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.; Monsieur Pourceaugnac.; The Citizen turn'd Gentleman.
Notes: B.L.describes as a comedy in five acts and in prose.

The dedicatory epistle 'To His Highness Prince Rupert', signed: 'Edward Ravenscroft'.

Taken from Molière's 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme' and 'Monsieur de Pourceaugnac'; this work originally published, 1672, under title 'The Citizen turn'd Gentleman' [NUC and B.L.] The DNB, in the entry for Ravenscroft, records: 'His first play, Mamamouchi, orThe Citizen turned Gentleman', was produced at Dorset Garden in 1671, and printed in 1675, with a dedication to Prince Rupert. It was taken, as the sub-title avowed, from Molière's 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme', which had been produced in the preceding year.The character of Sir Simon Softhead was borrowed from 'Monsieur de Pourceaugnac', first acted in 1670. The play pleased the king and court, and ran for nine nights with full houses; it was acted not less than thirty times before it was printed ... '.

Wing M2384 [under Molière];  T.C.I, 219; W&McM 966.