The renowned artist once designed the sets and costumes for Ubu Roi in 1966.

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In a town in the north of England, hundreds gather each year to take part in a no-rules mass football game

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At once a spoof of French cycling culture and a loving tribute to 19th-century writer and forerunner of surrealism Alfred Jarry, Up and Down follows a bicycle rally up the French Alps’ Parpaillon pass...

The Pope’s Mustard-Maker (Le Moutardier du pape) was the last work that Alfred Jarry finished, a few months before his death in 1907. It is a bawdy three-act farce loosely based on the medieval leg…

The Spiral Rising from the Belly of Humanity Anyone who’s ever seen an illustration of Père Ubu, the grotesque hero of Alfred Jarry’s famous Ubu Roi, will remember a peculiar, baffling detail: a large...

My Works, Ye Mighty expands upon the conceptual literature of Christian Bök, particularly his ongoing project, entitled The Xenotext. Based upon work conducted during his tenure as the Writer-in-Resid...

The Infinite Monkeys Theorem has long-established the eventual certainty of the complete works of William Shakespeare being reproduced by a monkey ran…

The typing monkeys scenario postulates that, given enough time, the works of William Shakespeare could be produced as the result of a random process acting on a typewriter. The original scenario relie...

The team was able to identify and catalog an astounding number of nonwords — 8,352,712,501 — and analyze them using various techniques.

Simulate monkeys for Shakespeare!

Uncovers the nonhuman turn’s unexpected roots in the avant-gardes and mysticisms of nineteenth-century France Builds a new genealogy which highlights the unacknowledged expression of Catholic mysticis...