Background
The Mock Doctor: or The Dumb Lady Cur'd was the replacement for The Covent-Garden Tragedy as the companion play to The Old Debauchees. The play is an Anglicised adaptation of Molière's Le Medecin malgre Lui and is a contemporary to the translation by John Watts in the Select Comedies of Molière, even though there is no direct connection between Fielding and the translation. The play was first advertised in 16 June 1732 Daily Post as being in rehearsal and first ran on 23 June 1732.
It was later revised by 16 November 1732, and both versions were successful. The play ran for a total of twenty-four nights that year and was revived even until the nineteenth century. The revised version was shown on 16 November 1732 as an author's benefit and shown on 30 November at the request of the king. It was published by Watts on 11 July 1732 with a second edition published on 30 November 1732.
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