What more is possible? After us, the Savage God.

W.B. Yeats

Ubu Roi

Fiction by Alfred Jarry

One of the most extraordinary events of the late nineteenth century in Paris was the opening on December 11, 1896, at the Théâtre de l’Oeuvre, of Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi. The audience was scandalized by this revolutionary satire, developed from a schoolboy farce, which began with a four-letter word, defied all the traditions of the stage, and ridiculed the established values of bourgeois society.

Barbara Wright’s witty translation of this riotous work is accompanied with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Two previously untranslated essays in which Jarry explains his theories of the drama have also been included.

Paperback(published Jan, 18 1938)

ISBN
9780811200721
Price US
11.95
Page Count
190
Portrait of Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry was a French author and dramatist. The production of his Ubu Roi caused great controversy and riot on its opening night.

What more is possible? After us, the Savage God.

W.B. Yeats

French dramatist Alfred Jarry’s absurdist 1896 play, Ubu Roi, was a scathing satire on political ambition that influenced the emerging Dada and surrealist movements.

The Guardian