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The Middle Class Gentleman

The Middle Class Gentleman

Moliere

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1546493697
ISBN13: 9781546493693
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 4 2017
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.14 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme is a five-act comédie-ballet-a play intermingled with music, dance and singing-written by Molière, first presented on 14 October 1670 before the court of Louis XIV at the Château of Chambord by Molière's troupe of actors. Subsequent public performances were given at the theatre of the Palais-Royal beginning on 23 November 1670. The play takes place at Mr. Jourdain's house in Paris. Jourdain is a middle-aged bourgeois whose father grew rich as a cloth merchant. The foolish Jourdain now has one aim in life, which is to rise above this middle-class background and be accepted as an aristocrat. To this end, he orders splendid new clothes and is very happy when the tailor's boy mockingly addresses him as my Lord. He applies himself to learning the gentlemanly arts of fencing, dancing, music and philosophy, despite his age; in doing so he continually manages to make a fool of himself, to the disgust of his hired teachers.

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