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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Ubu Roi (King Ubu) is a play developed by Alfred Jarry. It was premiered on December 10 1896, and is widely acknowledged as a theatrical precursor to the Absurdist, Dada and Surrealist art movements. It is the first of three plays written throughout Jarry's life that satirize European philosophies, and their sometimes ludicrous practices. The two following plays were Ubu Cocu (Ubu Cuckolded) and Ubu Enchaîné (Ubu Enchained), neither of which were performed in Jarry's lifetime.

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Art and culture

• 1896 - Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi opens in Paris.
• 1948 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Births

• 1397 - Paolo Uccello Italian painter (d. 1475)
• 1815 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (d. 1852)
• 1830 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
• 1870 - Pierre Louÿs, French author (Songs of Bilitis) (d. 1925)
• 1870 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (Ornament and Crime) (d. 1933)
• 1912 - Tetsuji Takechi, Japanese theatrical and film director (d. 1988)
• 1929 - Michael Snow, Canadian artist and experimental filmmaker (d. 2022)
• 1935 - Shūji Terayama, Japanese dramatist, writer, director, and photographer (d. 1983)

Deaths

• 1936 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer ( Six Characters in Search of an Author) (b. 1867)
• 1944 - Paul Otlet, founding father of documentation science (b. 1868)
• 1951 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (b. 1869)
• 1978 - Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker (b. 1924)