The Ubu Plays: Includes: Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded; Ubu Enchained

Alfred Jarry is regarded as one of the founders of modern avant-garde theatre— “Dada, Surrealism, Pataphysics, Theatre of Cruelty, the Absurd—all owe a debt to Jarry.” (Encore) This volume contains his three classic Ubu texts: Ubu Roi, Ubu Cocu and Ubu Enchaîné. Through the lucid translations of Connolly and Taylor, the reader comes to realize that the violent and loathsome Ubu is Jarry’s dark metaphor for man in the modern age. As Ubu himself said, “We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well.”

• Exploits and Opinions of Dr Faustroll Pataphysician
• Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
• 'Pataphysics: A Useless Guide (The MIT Press)
• Anthology of Black Humor
• The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett (Faber Drama)
• The Supermale: By Alfred Jarry
• Ubu Roi (New Directions Paperbook)
• The DADA Reader: A Critical Anthology
• Ubu Trump
• The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays: Riders to the Sea; The Shadow of the Glen; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy ... of the Sorrows (Oxford World's Classics)