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  • Ubu

    The Ubu Plays: King Ubu, Cuckold Ubu & Slave Ubu

    by Alfred Jarry ...
    Translated by Kenneth McLeish ...
    Series series NHB Drama Classics
    Drama Classics: the World's Great Plays at a Great little PriceAlfred Jarry's trilogy of plays about the comically grotesque character of Pa Ubu, satirising power, greed, and bourgeois pretension.The Ubu Plays ( King Ubu, Cuckold Ubu and Slave Ubu) caused scandal when they first appeared in Paris in the 1890s, with their surreal and frequently obscene energy, and their broad parodies of ... Read more

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  • Ubu Roi, Ubu Cuckolded, and Ubu in Chains

    by Alfred Jarry ...
    Considered by some to have contributed to the birth of modernism, “Ubu Roi” is a comical play that is at once a wild and bizarre work which overturned the cultural rules, norms, and conventions of its day. A precursor to the “Theatre of the Absurd”, the play satirizes the complacency, greed, and abuse of power by the ruling class. Largely a parody of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” as wells as in part ... Read more

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  • Ubu Roi, Ubu Cuckolded, and Ubu in Chains

    by Alfred Jarry ...
    Considered by some to have contributed to the birth of modernism, "Ubu Roi" is a comical play that is at once a wild and bizarre work which overturned the cultural rules, norms, and conventions of its day. A precursor to the "Theatre of the Absurd", the play satirizes the complacency, greed and abuse of power by the ruling class. In addition to "Ubu Roi," Alfred Jarry wrote two sequels, "Ubu ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Ubu Roi

    by Alfred Jarry ...
    Series series Dover Thrift Editions: Plays
    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 ... Read more

    $3.50 USD