Alfred Jarry

Ubu Roi (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Altersempfehlung: ab 14 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780486112558
• Artikelnr.: 39137893

Autorenporträt

Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) was a French writer of plays, novels, and poetry. His most well-known work, the play Ubu Roi (1896), was first performed in 1896 at the Theatre de l'Oeuvre. Jarry died at the early age of 34 in 1907.