[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] The play was not produced in Jarry's lifetime, and as Jannarone notes, 'almost no one attempts to stage it.

[5] The Santa Cruz Sentinel noted, "Caesar Antichrist is both a strange and unusual play and a riotous and ribald production.