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Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
The Bourgeois Gentleman
also: Мещанин во дворянстве, The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Would-Be Gentleman
Moliere's 1670 comedy-ballet about a wealthy tradesman, Monsieur Jourdain, who apes the manners of the nobility; staged here as the play for V. N. Davydov's benefit performance on 5 February 1888, which Chekhov expects will be stifling, cramped, and noisy.
Reading notes
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 5 February 1888. Moscow. §7 "The Bourgeois Gentleman"
Moliere's 1670 comedy-ballet "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme," staged for Davydov's benefit performance the evening of this letter; Chekhov expects the crowded theater to leave him coughing all night.