R.U.R.: The (Un)Discovered Contexts and Present-day Perspective
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
R.U.R.: The (Un)Discovered Contexts and Present-day Perspective
Original language description
The chapter deals with the characters of Robots in Čapek's play R.U.R., showing some of the typical contexts in which Robots were perceived both by the audiences and theatre critics (Massendrama, dramatic Expressionism, dystopic drama). It delves also into some of the less often mentioned, yet highly relevant contexts of the characters of Robots, showing especially three of them. Primarily, the chapter points to the post-colonial appeal of Robots which Karel Čapek was clearly aware of and which related Robots to the subjects of the British colonial empire in some other texts by Čapek, i.e. The Letters from England. Secondly, it extensively illustrates both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Scriptures, i.e. the biblical, connotations of the characters of Robots. R.U.R., in this aspect, ranks among the modern drama with very high, yet specific biblical intertextuality: the author did not intend the biblical quotes, figures and connotations to be interpreted in a strictly religious way. The third (un)discovered context to the characters of Robots is that of AI-related narratives and theories.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Days After, Through the Lens of Karel Čapek’s Plays R.U.R. and The White Plague: Ethical Dilemmas of Industrial and Post-industrial Societies in 20th and 21st Century Theatre
ISBN
978-80-7008-470-0
Number of pages of the result
14
Pages from-to
108-121
Number of pages of the book
217
Publisher name
Divadelní ústav Praha
Place of publication
Praha
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