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- This grotesque farce about the monstrous Ubu, originally written as a parody of one of Jarry’s teachers, swiftly turned into a satire of the French middle class. The title character, Père Ubu, is a gluttonous, greedy, and cruel individual who slaughters the royal family of Poland in order to ascend the throne.
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This grotesque farce about the monstrous Ubu, originally written as a parody of one of Jarry’s teachers, swiftly turned into a satire of the French middle class. The title character, Père Ubu, is a gluttonous, greedy, and cruel individual who slaughters the royal family of Poland in order to ascend the throne.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 14, 2020 · Ubu Roi is both a commentary on and a revolt against the bourgeois morality, greed and corruption that Jarry witnessed in fin de siecle France. But its themes are universal. The play revolves around Père Ubu (Pa Ubu), an officer to Wencelas, King of Poland.
- chris@wealdenwordsmith.co.uk
The story is a parody of Shakespeare 's Macbeth and some parts of Hamlet and King Lear. As the play begins, Ubu's wife convinces him to lead a revolution, and kills the King of Poland and most of the royal family. The King's son, Bougrelas, and the Queen escape, but the latter later dies.
- Alfred Jarry, Jean Saltas
- 1961
While Pere Ubu is a stand-in for Shakespearean characters, he represents much more. This is a character whose crudeness and total lack of empathy was intended as an indictment of those who...
Ubu Roi is a satire that takes on themes of greed, power, corruption, and absurdism, and also draws tropes from Shakespearean plays like Macbeth and Hamlet.
Sep 4, 2024 · Alfred Jarry (born Sept. 8, 1873, Laval, France—died Nov. 1, 1907, Paris) was a French writer mainly known as the creator of the grotesque and wild satirical farce Ubu roi (1896; “King Ubu”), which was a forerunner of the Theatre of the Absurd.
The relationship reveals the satire of naturalist drama implicit in Ubu roi. That satire comes into sharp focus upon considering that Mère Ubu can be seen to be something of a parody of Zola's...
