The Physician In Spite of Himself

About this film

LibriVox recording of The Physician In Spite of Himself by Molière. (Translated by Henri van Laun.) Read in English by Roger Melin; ToddHW; alanmapstone; Sandra Schmit; Tomas Peter; Jason in Panama; Devorah Allen; Sonia; Leanne Yau; aravagarwal; Son of the Exiles; Owen Cook The Physician In Spite of Himself … is written in a most unbounded spirit of mirth, the matrimonial breezes wafting a certain amount of refreshing coolness throughout it all. The way in which Sganarelle is dubbed, or rather drubbed a doctor, is highly amusing; and the cure of the dumb girl, and the use which she makes of her recovered speech, contains a philosophical lesson which may be sometimes applied to the way in which nouveaux riches spread their newly acquired wealth. The learned and anatomical disquisitions between Sganarelle and Geronte are also very entertaining, as well as the growth of greed in the rustic physician. - Summary by The Translator Cast list: Geronte, father to Lucinda: ToddHW Leandre, Lucinda's lover: aravagarwal Sganarelle, husband to Martine: Jason in Panama Monsieur Robert, Sganarelle's neighbor: Roger Melin Lucas, husband to Jacqueline: Tomas Peter Valere, Geronte's servant: alanmaps…

Directors & creators

Molière

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;French; farce

View on archive.org ↗