R.U.R. And The Insect Play (Oxford Paperbacks) - Softcover

Capek, Karel

 
9780192810106: R.U.R. And The Insect Play (Oxford Paperbacks)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0192810103 ISBN 13: 9780192810106
Verlag: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1961

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Two of Capek's satirical plays depicting the horrors of a regimented technical world

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Karel Capek was a Czech journalist and playwright, as was his brother Josef who also had a considerable reputation as a painter of the Cubist School. Karel also wrote a sequel to R.U.R. with Josef, called Adam the Creator (1927), which showed man endeavouring to rebuild the world destroyed by robots. Karel's other publications include The Brigand (1920) The Makropulos Affair (1923) - which argued the case for longevity and decided against it; The White Scourge (1937) and The Mother (1938) - two anti-Fascist plays dealing with the rise of dictatorship and the devastating effects of war; and How A Play is Produced (an amusing short monograph).

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Both of the plays in this volume depict the horrors of a regimented technological world and the terrible end of the populace if it fails to rise against its oppressors. The plays reflect the world the Capeks lived in and comment on its grosser follies.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Erscheinungsdatum
1961
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0192810103
ISBN 13 
9780192810106
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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