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One of the classics of twentieth-century theater, this brilliantly conceived and exquisitely executed play by Czech playwright Karel ฤapek (1890โ1938) looks to a future in which all workers are automatons, or "robots" โ 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
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Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Release date: 20 August 1920
ISBN-10 : 0486419266 | ISBN-13: 9780486419268
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Release date: 20 August 1920
ISBN-10 : 0486419266 | ISBN-13: 9780486419268
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