Ubu
The Ubu Plays: King Ubu, Cuckold Ubu & Slave Ubu
$20.72
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
28 August 1997
Summary
Drama Classics: the World’s Great Plays at a Great little Price
Alfred 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 Shakespeare. They have since acquired …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781854591890 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1854591894 |
| Author: | Alfred Jarry, Kenneth McLeish |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 28 August 1997 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 106mm x 161mm |
| Series: | Drama Classics |
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Critics 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 *Alfred Jarry
Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play King Ubu (Ubu roi) (1896), an absurdist work featuring the character Pa Ubu, who reappears in later plays, Cuckold Ubu and Slave Ubu. He coined the term and philosophical concept of pataphysics, which uses absurd irony to portray symbolic truths (and playfully vice versa).Kenneth McLeish was the most widely respected and prolific translator of drama in Britain and, until his early death in 1997, edited the NHB Drama Classics series.
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