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The Middle-Class Gentleman

Chapter 6: The Cast
By Molière
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A self-important bourgeois pursues the manners and trappings of the aristocracy, hiring teachers in music, dance, fencing, philosophy, and tailoring while comically misapplying their lessons. His daughter's clandestine romance is aided by resourceful servants who outwit suitors and manipulate his vanity. Interlaced with music and dance interludes, the action builds to an elaborate mock ceremony that flatters his ambitions and exposes his gullibility. The comedy satirizes social climbing and pretension, contrasting the spectacle of affectation with the ordinary realities beneath it.

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Title: The Middle-Class Gentleman

Author: Molière

Translator: Philip Dwight Jones

Release date: December 1, 2001 [eBook #2992]
Most recently updated: February 7, 2013

Language: English

Credits: Produced by Philip Dwight Jones, and David Widger

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THE MIDDLE CLASS GENTLEMAN

(Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme)


By MOLIÈRE

(Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1622-1673)



Translated by Philip Dwight Jones





Comedy-Ballet presented at Chambord, for the entertainment of the King, in the month of October 1670, and to the public in Paris for the first time at the Palais-Royal Theater 23 November 1670 



ACT ONE
ACT TWO
ACT THREE
ACT FOUR
ACT FIVE





The Cast

Monsieur Jourdain, bourgeois. 
Madame Jourdain, his wife. 
Lucile, their daughter.
Nicole, maid. 
Cléonte, suitor of Lucile. 
Covielle, Cléonte's valet. 
Dorante, Count, suitor of Dorimène. 
Dorimène, Marchioness. 
Music Master. 
Pupil of the Music Master. 
Dancing Master. 
Fencing Master. 
Master of Philosophy. 
Tailor. 
Tailor's apprentice. 
Two lackeys. 
Many male and female musicians, instrumentalists, dancers, cooks, tailor's apprentices, and others necessary for the interludes. 

The scene is Monsieur Jourdain's house in Paris.