After one character in this play is told that all speech is either verse or prose, he is astonished to realize that he has been speaking in prose all his life.
One character in this play claims to have proved by demonstrative logic the various positions that ensure that one never gets stabbed in a fencing match, but another character gets stabbed by a housemaid while trying to use them. After one character in this play bows twice and ends up too close to a lady, he demands that she step back, so he has room to bow once more. After one character in this play is told that all speech is either verse or prose, he is astonished to realize that he has been speaking in prose all his life. In a (*) ballet sequence, this play's protagonist is made to go down on all fours and have a Qu'ran placed on his back in a ceremony making him a Mamamouchi. ClÃ©onte disguises himself as the son of the Sultan of Turkey to the win the daughter of this play's protagonist, who hires music and dancing masters to cultivate his tastes. For 10 points, name this MoliÃ¨re play in which the merchant Monsieur Jourdain desires to learn how to behave like a nobleman.
One character in this play claims to have proved by demonstrative logic the various positions that ensure that one never gets stabbed in a fencing match, but another character gets stabbed by a housemaid while trying to use them.
Le bourgeois gentilhomme [or The Middle-Class Gentleman; or The Would-Be Noble; or The Would-Be Gentleman; or The Merchant Gentleman; or The Middle-Class Aristocrat; or The Tradesman; or a gazillion other translations]