{"id":5817,"date":"2014-01-27T08:51:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T16:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=5817"},"modified":"2015-07-16T18:21:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T02:21:54","slug":"was-the-word-robot-first-coined-in-a-early-20th-century-polish-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2014\/01\/27\/was-the-word-robot-first-coined-in-a-early-20th-century-polish-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the Word Robot First Coined in a Early 20th Century Czech Play?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about theater and whether they are true or false. <\/p>\n

THEATER URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: Karel \u010capek coined the word “robot” in a play.<\/p>\n

Karel \u010capek was one of the notable writers in Czechoslovakia during the 20th Century, and he was especially noteworthy when it comes to science fiction, as while he likely would not be technically termed a “science fiction writer,” he surely had a science fiction-tinge to his work, which is especially notable for a guy whose most notable plays all came during the 1920s.<\/p>\n

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\u010capek was a harsh critic of Nazi Germany, and devoted much of his work in the 1930s to criticizing the Nazis. He refused to leave the country when it became pretty clear that the Nazis were coming, and he died of double pneumonia in December 1938, just as the Nazis were annexing part of his homeland.<\/p>\n

Perhaps his most famous play was called R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), which is about, well, robots.<\/p>\n

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