The Doctor in Spite of Himself (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
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- Author: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
- First Published: 1666
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Farce
- Time of Work: Seventeenth century
- Setting: Paris, France
- Genres: Drama, Comedy, Comedy of manners
- Subjects: Wives, Love or romance, Abused persons, Marriage, Science or scientists, Doctors, Paris, Seventeenth century, Revenge
- Locales: Paris, France
Characters Discussed
Sganarelle (zgah-nah-REHL), a wood gatherer whose wife accuses him of drunkenness, gambling, and lechery. Although he admits that she is a good wife, he intends to be the boss of the household. Because he believes that beatings increase affection, he whips her. When he is mistaken for a doctor, through his wife’s trickery to have him beaten in turn, he displays—though he has had no education beyond the lowest class in school—wit, quick thinking, and convincing inventiveness by his use of garbled Latin, jumbled anatomical terms, and quotations from...
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