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The Middle Class Gentleman
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The Middle Class Gentleman(French:Le Bourgeois gentilhomme), is a five-act comédie-ballet—a play intermingled with music, dance and singing—byMolière, first presented on 14 October 1670 before the court ofLouis XIV at the Château of Chambord by Molière's troupe of actors. The music was composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully, the choreography was by Pierre Beauchamp, the sets were by Carlo Vigarani and the costumes were done by the chevalier d’Arvieux. The Middle Class Gentleman satirizes attempts at social climbingand 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. The play is in prose.
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