This version quickly became popular with both British and American audiences and was well received by critics. The play was translated into English, and slightly abridged, by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair in 1923. Ultimately, however, this admirable desire leads to disaster for humankind. She still however aspires to improve the life of robots and find a way to give them souls. However, in what must be the fastest seduction scene in all drama, she is wooed and agrees to marry Harry Domin, the factory manager, who she has just met. In the first scene of the play, they are visited by a young woman, Helena Glory, who aspires to relieve the lot of the robots, who she sees as oppressed. They can be mass-produced in large numbers and are being adopted as workers in many countries. The corporation has been manufacturing artificial beings which resemble humans, but who are tireless workers. The play is set in the island headquarters of the R.U.R. “Robot” is derived from the Czech word meaning “worker.” is perhaps the most well-known of these works in the English-speaking world because it brought the word “robot” into the language. One of the classics of twentieth-century theater, this brilliantly conceived and exquisitely executed play by Czech playwright Karel apek (18901938) looks to a future in which all workers are automatons, or 'robots' a word this play made a permanent part of the language. R.U.R., or Rossum’s Universal Robots is a play written in 1920 by Karel Čapek, a Czech writer who wrote many plays and novels, many of them with science-fiction and dystopian themes.
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