the Doctor in spite of him is a Comédie - joke of Molière into three act S in Prose represented for the first time the August 6th 1666 with the Théâtre of the Palais Royal. Molière, itself sick at the time when he writes it, illustrates here his contempt for the Médecine of his time.

Characters

• SGANARELLE : husband of Martine,
• MARTINE : woman of Sganarelle,
• Mr. ROBERT : neighbor of Sganarelle,
• VALÈRE : domestic of Géronte,
• LUCAS : husband of Jacqueline,
• GÉRONTE : father of Lucinde,
• JACQUELINE : nurse at Géronte and woman of Lucas,
• LUCINDE : girl of Géronte,
• LÉANDRE : lover of Lucinde,
• THIBAUT : father of Perrin,
• PERRIN : wire of Thibaut, peasant.

Summary

Act I

After a domestic fight with his Martine wife, the hero Sganarelle struggles against his relentless Destin: Martine, to be avenged for its husband who strikes it, the fact of passing for a doctor near two servants (Lucas and Valère). The latter will see Sganarelle in the intention to cure Lucinde (the girl of their Master), mysteriously become dumb. To make him hear reason, the two servants believe themselves obliged to employ the great ways (obligation recommended by the Martine crafty one). This misunderstanding gives place to a brawl of Commedia dell' arte . Beaten and struck, Sganarelle agrees to hold place of Doctor at Lucinde.

Act II

It is discovered that Lucinde is less sick than it appears to with it: its dumbness is actually a pretext to continue to see its Léandre. During this time, Sganarelle brilliantly plays its new part of doctor, putting forward his science with great reinforcements of fine wordss. As impromptu doctor it expresses the same charlatanism, same venality and the same indifference for the life of the patients as its fellow-members of the time. It also benefits from its position of Médecin in the house of Géronte to allure Jacqueline coarsely, which is not to like Lucas.

Act III

Sganarelle meets Léandre and he will not say anything to anybody because Sganarelle is an honest man. Moreover, it meets Thibaut and his Perrin son; these two characters tells him that his/her mother is sick. Sganarelle gives him a cheese to cure it. Léandre, which requested the assistance of Sganarelle to be able to approach Lucinde, is disguised in its turn as a doctor. He flees then with Lucinde. The end of the part is typical of Molière: Léandre Lucinde wife and Sganarelle, which has escaped little with hanging to have helped Léandre, become finally doctor of profession.

Famous counterparts

• I want that it beats me, me! … I like him to be beaten. (Martine, act I, scene II)
• It there faggots and faggots. (Sganarelle, act I, scene V)
• Géronte . - Does Hippocrates say that?

  Sganarelle . - Yes.

  Géronte . - In which chapter, please?

  Sganarelle . - In its chapter… of the hats.

  (Act II, scene II)
• Here precisely which makes that your daughter is dumb. (Sganarelle, act II, scene IV)
• Géronte . - It seems to me that you place them differently than they are not; that the heart is left side, and the liver of the right-sided.

  Sganarelle . - Yes, that was formerly thus, but we changed all that.

  (Act II, scene IV)
• It is always the fault of that which dies. Finally the good of this profession is that there is among deaths a honesty, the largest discretion of the world; and never one does not see any complaining about the doctor who killed it. (Sganarelle, act III, scene I)

See too

the Doctor in spite of him is also a Op3era Comique of Charles Gounod arranged by Erik Satie.

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