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R.U.R. by Karel Čapek | |
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| Name: |
Karel Capek | | Birth Date: |
January 9, 1890 | | Death Date: |
December 25, 1938 | | Place of Birth: |
Bohemia, Czechoslovakia | | Place of Death: |
Prague, Czechoslovakia | | Nationality: |
Czech | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
novelist, playwright, essayist |
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Biography of Karel Capek
575 words, approx. 1.9 pages
 The Czech author Karel Capek (1890-1938) was a noted novelist, playwright, and essayist. He was perhaps the best-known Czech literary figure of the 1920s and 1930s. Born in northeastern Bohemia on Jan. 9, 1890, Karel Capek was the son of a physician. He...
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Biography of Karel Capek
3844 words, approx. 12.8 pages
 Karel Capek is regarded as the most important Czech writer before World War II. He worked in many capacities: he was a man of the theater, a translator, a journalist, an essayist, a fiction writer, and an organizer of cultural activities. His views incli...
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Biography of Karel Capek
2854 words, approx. 9.5 pages
 Karel Capek is regarded as the most important Czech writer before World War II. He worked in many capacities: he was a man of the theater, a translator, a journalist, an essayist, a fiction writer, and an organizer of cultural activities. His views incli...



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R.U.R. Information
1,177 words, approx. 4 pages
 R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) is a science fiction play by Karel Čapek. It premiered in 1921 and is famous for having introduced and popularized the term...


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 The Stranger
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
03/06/2008: 309 words, approx. 1 pages R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) Open Circle Theater at Theater Schmeater Through March 22. The concept at the center of Karel Capek's 1921 play R.U.R. is radical even for this age of DNA and cloning: that love is an independent substance, and...
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 The Washington Post
'R.U.R.': Revenge Of the Robots
09/10/1999: 677 words, approx. 2 pages Imagine the world of Franz Kafka channeled through H.G. Wells with a little help from Laurel and Hardy, and you get an idea of the sensibility underlying Karel Capek's 1920 play "R.U.R." This sci-fi parable in the guise of a farce was a...
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 The Orange County Register


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R.U.R. by Karel Čapek | |
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About 76 pages (22,923 words) in 5 products |
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