The Ubu Plays: Includes: Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded; Ubu Enchained
Jarry, Alfred
ISBN 10: 0802150101 ISBN 13: 9780802150103
Published by Grove Press, 1994
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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 Enchaînéeacute;. 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."
Review: Its lunatic grotesquerie is brilliantly caught in McLeish's new translation... Exhilaratingly combines the erudite with the lavatorial... classical parody and surreal farce anticipating avant-garde art as well as the Goons and Monty Python. --Guardian
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Title: The Ubu Plays: Includes: Ubu Rex; Ubu ...
Publisher: Grove Press
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good