by Karel Čapek
I just listened to an audio drama of R.U.R., Rossum's Universal Robots. It's a short stage play from 1920 and it popularized the word 'robot'. It's a story about a group of people who run a factory that produces many billions of robots, over the years, and things get a little out of control. The pre...
bookshelves: published-1920, play-dramatisation, sci-fi, sciences, dystopian, philosophy, fraudio, satire Read in November, 2009 ** spoiler alert ** BLURB - Karel Capek’s three-act play R.U.R. or Rossum’s Universal Robots was originally staged in Prague in 1920. Once it had been translated from ...
A fun little play about a robot revolt. I find it fascinating that the first time robots appear at all, they immediately revolt. It's a play about ideas and also a play that has an almost pulp science fiction feel. A combination of Kafka and Burroughs with some general European intellectualism th...
Had to read it really - the man who introduced the term 'robot'. Apart from this (and lots of robots!) very much a play of its time - A little bit on the socialist propagandist side, A little bit sexist, and racist with it (Please, a fat, bald, short-sighted Jew who dies in a pile of money..., nice ...
I don't read that many plays, but I should probably read more considering that I work in theatre. I picked this one up primarily because it's famous for coining the term "robot". The creatures in Čapek's work aren't really what we typically consider robots today, though--they're more biological than...
"Do you think the soul first shows itself by a gnashing of teeth?""Nobody can hate men more than men. Turn stones into men and they'd stone us."Capek's R.U.R. is credited with the invention of the term "robot," but it really shouldn't be; the term as used in the play isn't what we've come to define ...
BLURB - Karel Capek’s three-act play R.U.R. or Rossum’s Universal Robots was originally staged in Prague in 1920. Once it had been translated from Czech into English, it was performed in New York, before being adapted by Nigel Playfair for the English stage in 1923. The play became a massively influ...
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