Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
by:
Molière (author)
A.C. Clapin (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780521157476 (0521157471)
Publish date: April 1st 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages no: 122
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
France,
French Literature,
17th Century,
Fiction
This is a play about a middle class merchant whose goal in life is to become a member of the aristocracy and he tries many things, including arranging his daughter's marriage, to achieve that goal. In a way this desire is almost an obsession, and his friends take advantage of this by playing a joke ...
This is more like the moliere I remember.