What Does Molière's Play the Middle-Class Gentleman (1670) Reveal About

question 40

Multiple Choice

What does Molière's play The Middle-Class Gentleman (1670) reveal about seventeenth-century manners?

• A) That middle-class upstarts had no interest in aristocratic manners
• B) That the aristocracy's refined manners were grotesque and elitist
• C) That the aristocracy had begun to treat the middle classes with more respect
• D) That the middle classes were imitating the aristocracy's manners and tastes

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