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A stunning, controversial work that immediately outraged audiences with its scatological references during the 1896 premiere, Ubu Roi satirizes the tendency of the successful bourgeois to abuse his authority and become irresponsibly complacent.

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"What more is possible? After us, the Savage God." -- W.B. Yeats

Ubu Roi

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    A Paperback / softback by Alfred Jarry, Barbara Wright, L. Lantier

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      Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Publication Date: 01/02/1961
      ISBN13: 9780811200721, 978-0811200721
      ISBN10: 0811200728

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A stunning, controversial work that immediately outraged audiences with its scatological references during the 1896 premiere, Ubu Roi satirizes the tendency of the successful bourgeois to abuse his authority and become irresponsibly complacent.

      Trade Review
      "What more is possible? After us, the Savage God." -- W.B. Yeats

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