Karel Čapek and the Rossum's Universal Robots: the 90th unniversary of the first night of R.U.R.

Abstract

The article deals with the genre of the play (conversation comedy, sci-fi), the first night and different staging of it, with the language qualities of Čapek's dialogue and with the history of the word "robot".

Keywords

• robot
• conversation
• comedy
• sci-fi
• names of characters