The actor's Molière. Volume 2, The doctor in spite of himself ; and the bourgeois gentleman
(2016)
Nonfiction
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[United States] : Interactive Media : Made available through hoopla, 2016
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1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781911495468 (electronic bk.) MWT11684022, 1911495461 (electronic bk.) 11684022
LANGUAGE
English
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The play takes place at Mr. Jourdain's house in Paris. Jourdain is a middle-aged 'bourgeois' whose father grew rich as a cloth merchant. The foolish Jourdain now has one aim in life, which is to rise above this middle-class background and be accepted as an aristocrat. To this end, he orders splendid new clothes and is very happy when the tailor's boy mockingly addresses him as 'my Lord'
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