The Middle Class Gentleman

ISBN-13: 9781546493693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 66 str.

Moliere

Opis

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme is a five-act comedie-ballet-a play intermingled with music, dance and singing-written by Moliere, first presented on 14 October 1670 before the court of Louis XIV at the Chateau of Chambord by Moliere'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.