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Product Identifiers

PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100486419266

ISBN-139780486419268

eBay Product ID (ePID)1949600

Product Key Features

Book TitleR. U. R.

Number of Pages64 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

TopicEuropean / General, Science Fiction / General

IllustratorYes

GenreDrama, Fiction

AuthorKarel Capek

Book SeriesDover Thrift Editions: Plays Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight2 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2001-028651

Grade FromNinth Grade

SynopsisMust-read play looks to a future in which all workers are automatons. They revolt when they acquire souls (i.e., when they gain the ability to hate) and the resulting catastrophe make for a powerful theatrical experience., One of the classics of twentieth-century theater, this brilliantly conceived and exquisitely executed play by Czech playwright Karel capek (1890-1938) looks to a future in which all workers are automatons, or "robots" -- a word this play made a permanent part of the language. The robots revolt when their manufacturing formula is changed to make them more irritable and to give them the human ability to hate, and the resulting catastrophe makes for a powerful and deeply moving theatrical experience. "It is murderous social satire, done in terms of the most hair-raising melodrama," wrote Alexander Woolcott in his 1922 review of the first U.S. performance of this universally admired play. Heywood Broun wrote, "capek is potentially one of the great men in the modern drama. He has devised a scene at the end of the third act as awesome as anything we have ever seen in the theatre." This is the scene in which one of the last remaining humans, knowing himself and his species to be doomed, muses: "It was a great thing to be a man. There was something immense about it.", One of the classics of twentieth-century theater, this brilliantly conceived and exquisitely executed play by Czech playwright Karel ÄŒapek (1890-1938) looks to a future in which all workers are automatons, or "robots" -- a word this play made a permanent part of the language. The robots revolt when their manufacturing formula is changed to make them more irritable and to give them the human ability to hate, and the resulting catastrophe makes for a powerful and deeply moving theatrical experience. "It is murderous social satire, done in terms of the most hair-raising melodrama," wrote Alexander Woolcott in his 1922 review of the first U.S. performance of this universally admired play. Heywood Broun wrote, "ÄŒapek is potentially one of the great men in the modern drama. He has devised a scene at the end of the third act as awesome as anything we have ever seen in the theatre." This is the scene in which one of the last remaining humans, knowing himself and his species to be doomed, muses: "It was a great thing to be a man. There was something immense about it."

LC Classification NumberPG5038.C3R213 2001