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Ubu Roi burlesques bourgeois values through outlandish political adventurism, including assassination, mock heroics, and buffoonery. [Fr. Drama: Alfred Jarry Ubu Roi in Benét, 1036] See : Satire How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In "Vaulting Ambition and Killing Machines," Curtis Perry shows why Jarry, in Ubu Roi, and Ionesco, in Macbett, "found Shakespeare to be contemporary, and why they both returned to Macbeth: [they were drawn by] not just the play's cynical depiction of state violence, but the way it explores the paradoxes of ambition and mimetic desire, the tragic necessity of the gap between the fantasy of absolute autonomy and the conventional objectives that must stand in for it" (97). I go to the first performance of Jarry's Ubu Roi [King Ubu], at the Theatre de l' Oeuvre. One century later, Andrei Belgrader and Shelley Berc's Ubu Rock, based on Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, underlines the move from Modernist transgressive shock to post-Modernist parodic glee. |
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