History Theatre / TheBourgeoisGentleman

'''Covielle:'''He says that you should go with him quickly to prepare yourself for the ceremony; then you can see your daughter and conclude the marriage.\\

* HypocriticalHumor: The Master of Philosophy tries to bring peace between the dance and music masters, and the fencing master after the latter insulted the former two's arts and professions, claiming that that it's vain to fight over such trivial matters and that moderation, patience and wisdow should be the answer to insults and disagreements. Then he gets triggered when the other masters defend their respective art, insults their profession as a result, gets angry when they insult him back and gets in a brawl with them.

* HypocritalHumor: The Master of Philosophy tries to bring peace between the dance and music masters, and the fencing master after the latter insulted the former two's arts and professions, claiming that that it's vain to fight over such trivial matters and that moderation, patience and wisdow should be the answer to insults and disagreements. Then he gets triggered when the other masters defend their respective art, insults their profession as a result, gets angry when they insult him back and gets in a brawl with them.

* StarCrossedLovers: Lucile and Cléonte love each other, but Lucile's father, Monsieur Jourdain, does not want them to marry because Cléonte is not an aristocrat.

* HypocritalHumor: The Master of Philosophy tries to bring peace between the dance and music masters, and the fencing master after the latter insulted the former two's arts and professions, claiming that that it's vain to fight over such trivial matters and that moderation, patience and wisdow should be the answer to insults and disagreements. Then when he gets trigered when the other masters defend their respective art, insults their profession as a result, gets angry when they insult him back and gets in a brawl with them.

* ConMan: Dorante manages to squeeze large sums of money out of Monsieur Jourdain. He even makes him pay the ring he gives to his lover, Dorimène.

* TriangRelations: Type 4: Dorante and Dorimène love each other, and Monsieur Jourdain falls for Dorimène.

* ZanyScheme: Cléonte dresses up as a Turkish prince to convince Monsieur Jourdain to let him marry his daughter.

''The Bourgeois Gentleman'' (''Le Bourgeois gentilhomme'', also translated as ''The Middle-Class Aristocrat'' or ''The Would-Be Noble'') is a 1670 comedy play by Creator/{{Moliere}}.

* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: The new suit of Monsieur Jourdain is so ridiculous that Nicole cannot stop laughing when she sees it.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Dorante is a count, but his low income forces him to turn to his talent of ConMan to maintain his lifestyle.

* NouveauRiche: Monsieur Jourdain is very rich because his father made a fortune as a cloth dealer, but he lacks the culture and the style of the aristocrats, so he tries to learn it from various teachers. He fails miserably and always looks ridiculous.

* RapidFireInterrupting: Monsieur Jourdain tries to give Nicole instructions to clean the house, but Nicole keeps on interrupting him with her bursts of laughter.

* YourCheatingHeart: Monsieur Jourdain is a married man, but he falls in love with Domimène and tries to charm her.

* BetaCouple: Covielle (Cléonte's servant) and Nicole (Lucile's servant), to Cléonte and Lucile. The two couples are in love; both men are angry at the women at first, because Nicole and Lucile ignored Covielle and Cléonte when they met by chance on the street. Covielle and Nicole encounter less problems than Lucile and Cléonte, but in the en they all get married with their respective lover.

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The Turkish language that Cléonte speaks is gibberish. {{Justified|Trope}} because he only prentends to speak Turkish, and Monsieur Jourdain is too stupid to tell the difference.

* FrenchMaid: Nicole is very insolent and snarky.

-->"What a dupe! If he had learned his role by heart, he could not have played it better."

-->"What! Father, look at you! Are you playing in a comedy?"

* ParentalMarriageVeto: Monsieur Jourdain does not want his daughter Lucile to marry Cléonte, because he is not an aristocrat. Circumventing that veto for the young lovers becomes the main plot of the rest of the play.

** Monsieur Jourdain is shortly made to undergo a ceremony under the pretext of ennobling him Turkish-style. The Mufti and his assistants perform most of the ceremony, not in actual Turkish, but in "Sabir" or "Lingua Franca", a largely romance pidgin that was once used to facilitate communication in the Mediterranean Basin. Justified as the ceremony is a sham meant to trick Monsieur Jourdain and may have involved locals speaking the foreign language they knew rather than actual Turks.

Monsieur Jourdain is a bourgeois, but he admires the aristocrats and he tries to behave like them to be accepted in their social circle. So he takes various courses: dance, music, fencing, and philosophy. He also sees Dorante, a count who often borrow large sums of money from him.

* ParentalMarriageVeto: Monsieur Jourdain does not want his daughter Lucile to marry Cléonte, because he is not an aristocrat.

** Lucile to his father:

* BetaCouple: Covielle (Cléonte's servant) and Nicole (Lucile's servant), to Cléonte and Lucile. The two couples are in lov; both men are angry at the women at first, because Nicole and Lucile ignored Covielle and Cléonte when they met by chance on the street. In the end, they all get married, but Covielle and Nicole encounter less problems than Lucile and Cléonte.

* HappilyEverAfter: {{Exaggarated|Trope}}. In the end, Lucile gets married with Cléonte, Nicole with Covielle, and Dorimène with Dorante.

Monsieur Jourdain is a bourgeois, but he admires the aristocrats and he tries to behave like them to be accepted in their social circle. So he takes various courses: dance, music, fencing, and philosophy. He also sees a so-called count who often borrow large sums of money from him.

* UpperClassTwit: Monsieur Jourdain is very rich and very stupid. His various teachers and Dorante take advantage of him and squeeze large sums of money out of him.