description: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme or The Shopkeeper Turned Gentleman 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 Shopkeeper Turned Gentleman
titlecomplete: The Shopkeeper Turned Gentleman
genres: Fiction, Plays, France, Theatre, French Literature, Drama, 17th Century, School, Humor, Classics
ratings_count: 12233
places: France
publisher: Indypublish.Com