Three Pre-Surrealist Plays

by Alfred Jarry, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Maeterlinck

Book Overview

The landmark plays from the French theatre included in this edition embody the transition from the old to the modern in dramatic experimentation: precursors of surrealism, they are innovative, outrageous and highly enjoyable. Consisting of Maeterlinck's The Blind, Jarry's Ubu the King, and Apollinaire's The Mammaries of Tiresias, this edition provides new translations sensitive to crucial linguistic features such as rhyme and pun and contains the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192832174
• ISBN13: 9780192832177
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.6" x 7.3"