The supermale: A modern novel; (Cape editions, 19)

Alfred, Jarry

CAPE.

The Ubu Plays

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

GROVE PRESS

Rear cover notes: "The guiding light of the Surrealist movement, Alfred Jarry was, and remains, the most important figure in the development of the Theater of the Absurd. His plays - among them the now famous Ubu plays - have become an integral part of the history of the theater, and his essays and poems widely read. This collection allows the reader to gauge the full range of Jarry's work. Included are Cyril Connolly's superb translation of Ubu Cuckolded, Simon Watson Taylor's fine version of Jarry's key work, Exploits and Opinions of Doctor Faustroll, Pataphysician, extracts from the novels Days and Nights, Journal of a Deserter, and Messalina, and his best-known poems, essays, drawings, and writings on the theater."

Selected Works of Alfred Jarry

World Literature

Selected Works

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

When it first opened in Paris in late 1896, Ubu Roi immediately outraged audiences with its scatological references and surrealist style. Spectators rioted during the premiere (and final) performance and unrelenting controversy over the play's meaning followed. The quality and stunning impact of the work, however, was never questioned. Early drafts of the play were written by Jarry in his teens to ridicule one of his teachers. The farce was done in the form of stylized burlesque, satirizing the tendency of the successful bourgeois to abuse his authority and become irresponsibly complacent. Ubu — the cruel, gluttonous, and grotesque main character (the author's metaphor for modern man) — anticipated characteristics of the Dada movement. In the 1920s, Dadaists and Surrealists championed the play, recognizing Ubu Roi as the first absurdist drama.

Ubu Roi (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays)

Reference

Dover Publications

The Supermale

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Ubu Roi (French Edition)

Livres Généraux

OEuvres completes (Bibliotheque de la Pleiade) (French Edition)

Genre Fiction

French and European Publications Inc

Used. Very Good conditions. May have soft reading marks and name of the previous owner.

Ubu: Ubu roi, Ubu cocu, Ubu enchaine, Ubu sur la Butte (Collection Folio Classiique 980)

Gallimard]

Ubu Roi

History

Europe

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