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  2. Ubu Roi - Wikipedia

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    Alfred Jarry, Deux aspects de la marionnette originale d'Ubu Roi, premiered at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre on 10 December 1896. 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 ...

  3. Alfred Jarry - Wikipedia

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    Alfred Jarry, Deux aspects de la marionnette original d'Ubu Roi, premiered at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre on 10 December 1896. His father Anselme Jarry (1837–1895) was a salesman who descended into alcoholism; his mother Caroline, née Quernest (1842–1893), was interested in music and literature, but her family had a streak of insanity, and her mother and brother were institutionalized.

  4. Théâtre de l'Œuvre - Wikipedia

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    Jarry's lithograph advertising the 1896 premiere of Ubu Roi. On December 10, 1896, the Théâtre de l'Œuvre presented Alfred Jarry's soon legendary Ubu Roi, at Nouveau-Théâtre, 15, rue Blanche, with actor Firmin Gémier in the title role. Jarry had finished this epochal play about human greed, cowardice, and stupidity just six months before ...

  5. 1896 in literature - Wikipedia

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    December 10 – Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi (first published this Spring in Le Livre d'art) is premièred by the Théâtre de l'Œuvre in Paris. The opening word, "Merdre!", triggers disturbances and the play is not performed again in the author's lifetime. unknown dates. The final volume of Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West is ...

  6. Théâtre de Paris - Wikipedia

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    Most notably, they premiered Ibsen's Pillars of Society (22-23 June 1896) and Peer Gynt (11-12 November 1896); Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi (9-10 December 1896); Bjørnson's sequel to Beyond Human Power (25-26 January 1897); Hauptmann's fairy drama The Sunken Bell (4-5 March 1897); Bataille's Your Blood (7-8 May 1897); Ibsen's Love's Comedy (22-23 ...

  7. 1896 in France - Wikipedia

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    10 December – Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi (first published this Spring in Le Livre d'art) is premièred by the Théâtre de l'Œuvre in Paris. The opening word, "Merdre!", triggers disturbances and the play is not performed again in the author's lifetime. France establishes an administrative post in Abengourou, Ivory Coast.

  8. The 100 Greatest Rock Stars Since That Was A Thing - AOL

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    The group takes its name from an amoral, despotic character in surrealist Alfred Jarry’s 1896 play Ubu Roi (meaning “King Ubu”). Which esotericism makes sense when your declared intention is ...

  9. Ubu Rex - Wikipedia

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    Ubu Rex is a satirical opera by Krzysztof Penderecki, on a libretto in German by the composer and Jerzy Jarocki, based on Alfred Jarry's 1896 play Ubu Roi.It uses models by Offenbach, Rossini, Shostakovich and Schnittke.