The Ubu Plays

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The satirical farce 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. Zusammenfassung Alfred Jarry's trilogy of plays about the comically grotesque character of Pa Ubu, satirising power, greed, and bourgeois pretension.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alfred Jarry
• Mitarbeit: Kenneth McLeish (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Hern, Nick Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 20.03.1997
• EAN: 9781854591890
• ISBN: 978-1-85459-189-0
• Seiten: 96
• Abmessung: 105 mm x 160 mm x 10 mm
• Serien: Drama Classics; Drama Classics; NHB Classic Plays
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; DRAMA / General, Plays, Playscripts, Plays, playscripts, drama