The Middle-Class Gentleman
Nov 2019 · Good Press
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"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.
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