R. U. R. (subtitled "Rossum's Universal Robots") is a play by Karel Čapek about a revolt of manufactured workers against the humans they were designed to serve.
Bibliographic notesR. U. R. was written in Czech, and was originally published in 1920, with a revised version published in 1921, the year it was first performed. English language adaptations were produced and published a few years later, and the play has since been translated and adapted in many other languages as well.
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R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): Kolektivní Drama o Vstupní Komedii a 3 Dějstvích (in Czech; Prague: Aventinum, 1920), by Karel Čapek (multiple formats at archive.org) - R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (in Czech), by Karel Čapek (Gutenberg text)
- R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): Kolektivní Drama o Vstupní Komedii a 3 Dějstvích (in Czech; Prague: Aventinum, 1922), by Karel Čapek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
These versions, many of which adapt the Czech script for English-speaking audiences, rather than strictly translating it, are listed roughly in the order they were created.
- R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama in Three Acts and an Epilogue (S. French edition; c1923), by Karel Čapek, trans. by Paul Selver, contrib. by Nigel Playfair
- R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1925), by Karel Čapek, trans. by Paul Selver (page images at HathiTrust)
- R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama (Theatre Guild version, with production photographs; New York: Pub. for the Theatre Guild by Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928), by Karel Čapek, trans. by Paul Selver (multiple formats at archive.org)
- R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): A Play in Three Acts and an Epilogue (English stage adaptation; London et al.: H. Milford, Oxford University press, 1928), by Karel Čapek, trans. by Paul Selver, contrib. by Nigel Playfair (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), by Karel Čapek, trans. by David Wyllie (HTML at Wayback Machine)
These are listed alphabetically by language.
- R. U. R., Rossumaj Universal Robotoj: Kolektive Dramo je Enkonduka Komedio kaj 3 Aktoj (in Esperanto; 1926), by Karel Čapek, contrib. by Otto F. Babler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- WUR, Werstands Universal Robots: Utopisches Kollektivdrama in Drei Aufzügen (in German; Prague and Leipzig: "Orbis", 1922), by Karel Čapek, trans. by Otto Pick
- "V U R": Verstandovy Universalʹnye Rabotari (in Russian; 1924), by Karel Čapek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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