R.U.R. and The insect play

by Josef Čapek, Karel Čapek

1920 94 pages eng ★ 3.8 (8 ratings)

"In 1920 Čapek wrote what was to become his most famous work, the play 'R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)', a meditation on the themes of humanity and subjugation that introduced the 'robot'. He was prolific throughout the 1920s, his plays addressing a range of subjects, although best remembered as…