by Molière · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782010172243
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«Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme» is Molière's five-act comedy-ballet, published by Hachette in paperback (224 pages, in French).
The play recounts the comic ambitions of the wealthy bourgeois Monsieur Jourdain, determined to imitate the manners of the nobility. Amid lessons in philosophy, music and dance, Molière satirises snobbery and the obsession with status; the famous scene in which Jourdain discovers he has been speaking prose without knowing it encapsulates that mockery.
This 1992 edition belongs to the Classiques Hachette collection (no. 14) and includes the complete text.
Aimed at secondary-school students and those new to classical French theatre.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playwright today. His influence is such that the French language is often referred to as the "language of Molière".
