Ubu: Full Text and Introduction - Couverture souple

Jarry, Alfred

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1854591894 ISBN 13 : 9781854591890

Editeur : Nick Hern Books, 1997

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Quatrième de couverture :

«Un personnage en passe de devenir proverbial, comme Gargantua, Gulliver ou Robinson Crusoé», disait Guillaume Apollinaire, et Catulle Mendès : «Fait de Punch et de M. Joseph Prudhomme, de Robert Macaire et de M. Thiers, énorme parodie malpropre de Macbeth, de Napoléon et d'un souteneur devenu roi, le Père Ubu existe désormais, inoubliable. Vous ne vous débarrasserez pas de lui.»

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Nick Hern Books
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1854591894
• ISBN 13: 9781854591890
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160