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The Middle-Class Gentleman - cover

The Middle-Class Gentleman

Jean Baptiste Poquelin (Molière)

Translator Philip Dwight Jones

Publisher: Good Press

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Summary

"The Middle-Class Gentleman" by Molière is a five-act comédie-ballet – a play intermingled with music, dance, and singing. 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. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.
Available since: 11/20/2019.
Print length: 133 pages.

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