The play opens with a large dinner featuring such dishes as cauliflower à la merdre.
This play is preceded by an epigraph which described how the title character shakes his pear, which is then called Shakespeare by the English and enjoyed by all. The play opens with a large dinner featuring such dishes as cauliflower à la merdre. The title character, given to saying such oaths as "by my green candle," kills people either by making them taste his scepter, which is really a toilet brush, or subjecting them to the debraining machine. He, along with his wife and compatriots, flee in a boat at the end of this play, having survived Bougrelas's attempt to avenge the death of his father Wenceslas. For ten points, the titular fat boor declares himself King of Poland in this Alfred Jarry play.
This play is preceded by an epigraph which described how the title character shakes his pear, which is then called Shakespeare by the English and enjoyed by all.
{Ubu Roi}