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A stunning, controversial work that immediately outraged audiences with its scatological references during the 1896 premiere, the farce satirizes the tendency of the successful bourgeois to abuse his authority and become irresponsibly complacent. Championed as the first absurdist drama, Ubu Roi features a main character that is cruel, gluttonous, and grotesque.

Ubu Roi

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    A Paperback / softback by Alfred Jarry

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      Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
      Publication Date: 28/03/2003
      ISBN13: 9780486426877, 978-0486426877
      ISBN10: 0486426874

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      Book Synopsis
      A stunning, controversial work that immediately outraged audiences with its scatological references during the 1896 premiere, the farce satirizes the tendency of the successful bourgeois to abuse his authority and become irresponsibly complacent. Championed as the first absurdist drama, Ubu Roi features a main character that is cruel, gluttonous, and grotesque.

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