Sganarelle, a vain and posturing tree lopper finds himself thrust accidentally into the unlikely role of physican. His fast growing popularity, and the fact that dead patients don’t tell tales, convince him to embrace his new profession wholeheartedly. The Doctor In Spite Of Himself, a hilarious high energy farce, written in 1666, holds a mirror up to the corruption of the medical profession in the seventeenth century but remains startlingly relevant today.