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    A Study Guide for Karel Capek's "R.U.R."
    A Study Guide for Karel Capek's "R.U.R."
    A Study Guide for Karel Capek's "R.U.R."
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    A Study Guide for Karel Capek's "R.U.R."

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    A Study Guide for Karel Capek's "R.U.R.," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535831710
    A Study Guide for Karel Capek's "R.U.R."

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      A Study Guide for Karel Capek's "R.U.R." - Gale

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      R.U.R.

      Karel Capek

      1921

      Introduction

      When Karel Capek’s R.U.R. (the acronymic title is short for Rossum’s Universal Robots) was first performed in 1921, it became a major international success and made Capek an internationally known playwright. Although R.U.R. may appear slightly dated nearly eighty years later, the concerns expressed by the playwright are still interesting to modern audiences, and the play is still performed in regional theatres. Capek’s drama is also responsible for coining a new word, robot, which became an important fixture of Hollywood films, especially the B-films of the 1950s. The word robot is derived from the Czech word robota, meaning forced labor, but it was the topic of the play, that technology can imperil the world, that made the play controversial.

      The problems this play deals with are not the realities of everyday life; instead Capek is exploring the larger issues of the human condition. With technology booming immediately after the end of World War I, R.U.R. touched on the concerns of many people. The idea of a utopian society to replace the one fractured by the horror of the first World War was especially appealing to audiences, some of whom were deeply disturbed by Capek’s vision of how technology might be misused. Capek’s concerns about the dehumanization of man through technology provides the central core of this play, and it is this motif that warns of the destructive force of

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