In this play's second scene, a musician performs a serenade he was commissioned to write about the Greek god Iris for hispatron, who suggests rewriting it as a song about the sheep "Namby the lamb-y." In this play's Ânal act, one man croucheson his hands and knees so a Mufti can use his back as a desk to hold the Alcoran during a ceremony to turn him into a "mamamouchi".The main character of this play gives a bankrupt count a diamond ring to woo the marchioness Dorimene onhis behalf, but the count seduce her as his own
In this play's second scene, a musician performs a serenade he was commissioned to write about the Greek god Iris for hispatron, who suggests rewriting it as a song about the sheep "Namby the lamb-y." In this play's Ânal act, one man croucheson his hands and knees so a Mufti can use his back as a desk to hold the Alcoran during a ceremony to turn him into a "mamamouchi".The main character of this play gives a bankrupt count a diamond ring to woo the marchioness Dorimene onhis behalf, but the count seduce her as his own lover. In a famous line from this play, the title character, aftfter learning from aphilosophy master that all language is prose or poetry, declares that he is happy to discover he has been speaking prose all hislife. The servant Covielle plans an elaborate ruse in this play's Ânal act when one character poses as the royal son of the sultanof Turkey to trick the title character into granting Cleonte his daughter Lucile's hand in marriage. For 10 points, name thisMoliere play about the ridiculous social-climbing of the merchant Jourdain.
In this play's second scene, a musician performs a serenade he was commissioned to write about the Greek god Iris for hispatron, who suggests rewriting it as a song about the sheep "Namby the lamb-y.
The Bourgeois Gentleman, or Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme[or accept The Would-Be Gentleman; or The Would-Be Noble; or The Middle-Class Gentleman]