Ubu: Full Text and Introduction - Couverture souple

Jarry, Alfred

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1854591894 ISBN 13 : 9781854591890

Editeur : Nick Hern Books, 1997

Synopsis

Number Thirty in NHB's Drama Classics Series, providing the world's great drama at a great price.

The introduction to this edition of The Ubu Plays includes a short biography of Alfred Jarry and chronology of his work; a guide to what happens in the play; a short history of the play and its context; and a brief guide to content, language, form and themes.

The satirical farces now acclaimed as the touchstone for the Dada and Surrealist movements, the Theatre of the Absurd, and much of the rest of experimental theatre in the 20th century. These three plays follow the adventures of Pa and Ma Ubu in their absurd world. King Ubu, the best known of the three, mirrors Macbeth as Ubu ousts the King, becomes a tyrant and is finally killed. This volume also includes Cuckold Ubu and Slave Ubu.

Translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nick Hern Books
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1854591894
• ISBN 13: 9781854591890
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
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• Personne responsable: non disponible