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The Bourgeois Gentleman
Molière
The Prodigious Snob
by Jean-baptiste Moliere, Miles Malleson
Synopsis
A nouveau riche bourgeois gentleman makes a jackass of himself by trying to impress everyone with his importance and wealth.
He will not permit his daughter to marry anyone who is not a nobleman and is quite willing to suffer an indignity providing it comes from a person of quality.
He will lend money, with no hope of recovery, to anyone who claims to be on speaking terms with the king.
His attempts to dress in a style suitable to his new station are ludicrous.
Finally he is made the butt of a practical joke, takes part unwittingly in the marriage of his daughter to a man of her choice, and is properly initiated into the nobility by a sham ceremony that only emphasizes the servility of those that pretend to greatness.
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The Prodigious Snob is a play written by Jean-baptiste Moliere and published by Samuel French .
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