num_pages: 89
description: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme is a comedy-ballet, in five acts in prose.Classic satire, one of the best by France's greatest comedic playwright, pokes fun at the sham and hypocrisy of 17th-century French society. A wealthy tradesman, Monsieur Jourdain, yearns to become a gentleman in order to win the hand of a marchioness, disregarding the inconvenient fact that he is already married, but only succeeds in making a fool of himself.
language: English
title: The Bourgeois Gentleman
titlecomplete: The Bourgeois Gentleman
genres: 17th Century, Theatre, Humor, Drama, French Literature, Fiction, Classics, School, France, Plays
ratings_count: 12233
places: France
publisher: Ivan R. Dee