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Original Title:	Ubu Roi
ISBN:	0811200728 (ISBN13: 9780811200721)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Poland

Ubu Roi

Alfred Jarry

Paperback | Pages: 186 pages

Rating: 3.63 | 4769 Users | 186 Reviews

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One of the most extraordinary events of the late nineteenth century in Paris was the opening on December 11, 1896, at the Théâtre de l’Oeuvre, of Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi. The audience was scandalized by this revolutionary satire, developed from a schoolboy farce, which began with a four-letter word, defied all the traditions of the stage, and ridiculed the established values of bourgeois society.


Barbara Wright’s witty translation of this riotous work is accompanied with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Two previously untranslated essays in which Jarry explains his theories of the drama have also been included.

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Title	:	Ubu Roi
Author	:	Alfred Jarry
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 186 pages
Published	:	January 17th 1961 by New Directions (first published December 9th 1896)
Categories	:	Plays. Drama. Theatre. Cultural. France. Classics. Fiction. European Literature. French Literature

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I read an article (published under the title: Rachilde's Supermale of Letters and the Invention of Ubu Roi Riot) by Sebastian Trainor, who teaches theater history in Pennsylvania State University and makes a very interesting revelation:He dismisses the myth about the alleged impact of Ubu Roi's performance on Théâtre de l'Œuvre. Besides the avant garde (Symbolists, Decadents) intellectuals who already had an idea of the play, no one else was particularly concerned with it. No upheaval, no

This play is funny and absurd ~ as it's meant to be for an absurdist drama! The settings move about quickly, the action is fast paced and predictable, the characters are gluttonous and disgusting. I have no idea how I feel about this kind of drama yet. The production I watched on youtube played on the filthy language and actions of Mama and Papa Ubu. It's cringe worthy, awkward but a real development in theatre at the time and I think when I've studied this play (as with most of the texts we

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Absurd, childish, a catalyst for those movements which would embrace childish absurdity. It is not so much a work of literature as it is a subversion of everything previously revered in literature -- and for this reason, 'Ubu Roi' should be read. Its primary shortcomings are brevity and shallowness, which seem to be the result of the work's adolescent composition (it was originally penned during his childhood) and the obtuseness necessitated by its theatrical performance.

What a grotesque character is King Ubu. He isn't dumb, he is just a coward, brutish, grotesque, pathetic... The adjectives aren't enough to define Ubu's person. It is this very character who develops such ridiculous situations like the murder of a king just because the lands aren't enough as an appreciation of his potential. Another unique character is the queen Ubu, who tries to balance her husband's moods, and aims to have a say about his decisions and actions. King Ubu shows the core human

Read this play for a drama class. Jarry was difficult to appreciate at first, but the more I studied it the more I liked it. Absurdist drama owes much of its nature to this and Jarrys other works.Whether its a commentary on the growing Bourgeois class or a tongue in cheek retelling of Macbeth, however you read it, its work time and appreciation.