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Alfred Jarry was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side. His wife is likewise repulsive in her looks and attitudes, and she cooks her food in feces. Jarry incorporates parodies on multiple Shakespeare plays: We see the ghosts of ancestral kings as in Hamlet and the queen's premonitions of the ruler pending death from Julius Caesar.

Jarry used satire in a distinctly 20th century way to attack society, the rules, the norms, those in power and practically everyone else a rebellious youth might want to savage. Writing in a variety of styles, many of his own devising, Jarry is considered one of the fathers of the Postmodernism.

Although he preceded them all, he is considered a proto-Dadaist by Dadaists, a proto-Futurist by Futurists, a proto-Surrealist by Surrealists, a proto-Absurdist by Absurdists, and proto-Postmodernist by Postmodernists. His work preceded them all, and they all embrace Ubu Roi as important in their development. Set in ''Poland, that it to say nowhere,'' Ubu Roi opens with the title character exclaiming a single word, ''Pshite! The escaping Queen dies, and the son experiences a vision of his ancestors demanding revenge for the deaths. Discovering that she cannot carry it all, she announces her plan to come back for it only to hear a voice in the crypt tell her no.

She pretends to be a spirit in order to get him to forgive her for stealing from the dead Kings of Poland. He offers a prayer to God, in case the bear is still alive. The soldiers from Poland, who have come to arrest them, interrupt them, but the Ubus escape on a ship sailing on the Baltic Sea. Ubu Roi is a satirical parody of many of Shakespeare's plays, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth , but from the perspective of an out of control schoolboy.

In fact, Jarry's earliest work on the play was as a schoolboy's attempt to mock a teacher he hated. The story and quality of the writing are nasty, scatological, mean-spirited, and adolescent. These same shocking qualities make it arresting in reading or performance in today's world.

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One can only imagine the original production at the end of the 19th century. The opening of Ubu Roi , even as it shocked its audience, was the moment when Postmodernism saw its future. Absurdists, Dadaists, Futurists, Surrealists, and Postmodernists all look at this performance of this play as the rallying cry at the foundation of their movements. The first performance saw some audience members cheering, some shouting the actors down, and some walking out.

The production was halted for fifteen minutes until order could be imposed. Some hailed it as groundbreaking and some decried it as offensive. Productions of the play often receive the same response today.

Ubu Roi: Summary, Themes & Significance

Playwright Alfred Jarry , although brilliant, lived a life fueled by absinthe and other mind-altering substances. The plot of Ubu Roi is absurd, beginning with its setting, which is in a fictionalized version of Poland, and its first word, Merdre! Jarry is both satirizing several of Shakespeare's plays and mocking an old school teacher of his in a style that predates and seems to initiate most of the important movements of the Postmodern age, Absurdism, Dadaism, Futurism, and Surrealism.

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