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The Ubu Plays: Includes: Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded; Ubu Enchained 🔍
Grove Press, Evergreen original, E-496, New York, 1969
Alfred Jarry; Cyril Connelly; Simon Watson Taylor 🔍
description
Alfred Jarry is regarded as one of the founders of modern avant-garde theatre— “Dada, Surrealism, Pataphysics, Theatre of Cruelty, the Absurd—all owe a debt to Jarry.” (Encore) This volume contains his three classic Ubu texts: Ubu Roi, Ubu Cocu and Ubu Enchaîné. Through the lucid translations of Connolly and Taylor, the reader comes to realize that the violent and loathsome Ubu is Jarry’s dark metaphor for man in the modern age. As Ubu himself said, “We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well.”
Alternative title
Ubu Roi / Ubu Cocu / Ubu enchain / Ubu sur la butte
Alternative author
Jarry, Alfred
Alternative publisher
Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Alternative publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Alternative publisher
Grove Weidenfeld
Alternative publisher
Methuen
Alternative edition
Methuen's theatre classics, London, 1968
Alternative edition
United States, United States of America
Alternative edition
1st Evergreen ed, New York, 1969
Alternative edition
Reissue, PS, 1994
Alternative edition
January 18, 1994
Alternative description
Provoking riots at its opening in 1896, Ubu is acclaimed as the touchstone for the Dada and Surrealist movements, the Theatre of the Absurd, and much of the rest of experimental theatre in the 20th century.
Alternative description
A collection of three short plays intended for children's theater
date open sourced
2022-11-02
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