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In Sir Patient Fancy, Behn asserts that her comedy is based only on Moliere's Le Malade imaginaire (1675): "Others (…) cryed it was made out of at least four French Plays, when I had but a very bare hint from one, the Malad Imagenere" (5). This statement constitutes a reaction to the claim that, apart from Le Malade imaginaire, Les Femmes savantes (1672), L'Amour medecin (1665) and Monsieur de Pourceaugnac (1669) are also sources of Sir Patient Fancy. In this paper, after analysing the mechanisms of humour production used by these two playwrights, I hope to shed some light on the relationship between Moliere's comedies and Sir Patient Fancy.

‘[H]ow much of the French is in this’: Aphra Behn’s use of humour in Sir Patient Fancy (1678)