| Ubu Roi: Drama in 5 Acts Revised Edition Contributor(s): Jarry, Alfred (Author), Wright, Barbara (Translator), Lantier, L. (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0811200728 ISBN-13: 9780811200721 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1961 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - French |
| Dewey: 842.8 |
| LCCN: 61010124 |
| Series: New Directions Paperbook |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.06" W x 7.22" (0.40 lbs) 186 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jarry, Alfred: - 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.Wright, Barbara: - Barbara Wright has translated several Raymond Queneau novels; indeed, as John Updike wrote in The New Yorker, she "has waltzed around the floor with the Master so many times by now that she follows his quirky French as if the steps were in English." She has also translated works by Alain Robbe-Grillet, Robert Pinget, Nathalie Sarraute, and Marguerite Duras. She lives in London. |