Garrick Médecin
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Garrick Médecin (Garrick the Physician) is an 1836 comedy written by J. Bouchardy, printed in the newspaper Le Monde Dramatique. It was the basis for several other plays including Sullivan (1852) and Le Docteur Robin (1842) which were respectively adapted into the English plays David Garrick (1864) and Doctor Davy (1865).
The plot concerns a nobleman, Doney, who grows concerned seeing that his teenage daughter, Anna, prefers the works of Shakespeare to reading religious texts. He contacts the actor David Garrick, through whose work Anna became familiar with Shakespeare, and asks him to "cure" her of this passion.
SOURCES:
William Davenport Adams, "A Dictionary of Drama."
Maurice Wilson Disher, "The Last Romantic."
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