
Overview
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.
Cast
M. Jourdain
Mme Jourdain
Dorante
Le maître de ballet
Le maître de musique
Le maître de philosophie
Le maître-tailleur
Covielle
Le maître d'armes
Lucile
Le premier laquais
Le Grand Turc