Title page to the 1985 edition of César Antéchrist
Written by
Alfred Jarry
Original language
French
Caesar Antichrist (French: César-Antéchrist) is a short 1895 play by the French writer Alfred Jarry. The third act is an early version of Jarry's next play, Ubu Roi; the main character of which, Père Ubu, appears here as the Antichrist.[1] This play begins with a startling sequence of images of garbled Christianity from which Ubu emerges as the new Messiah. Scholar Kimberly Jannarone argues the play was 'not intended for the stage' and is Jarry's own form of 'the theatre of the book'.[2] While not a closet drama, Jannarone argues this might be its closest lineage, and can be considered within a tradition of works ranging from the 'Platonic dialogues and Senecan tragedies through Milton’s Samson Agonistes, Byron’s Manfred, and Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s Axewhich'.[2]
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^ abJannarone, Kimberly (2009). "Jarry's Caesar Antichrist and the Theatre of the Book". New Theatre Quarterly. 25 (2): 121–136. doi:10.1017/S0266464X09000220. ISSN 0266-464X.
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