KAREL CAPEK (1890 - 1938)
adaptations/translations by modern playwrights
| Nationality: | Czechoslavakian |
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Adaptations - Translations of Plays by Karel Capek
Insect Play, The |
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| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London, 1961 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Karel Capek. In collaboration with Joseph Capek | |||||
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Insect Play, The |
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Four Plays by Capek" published by Methuen | ISBN | 9780413771903 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Karel Capek. Translated by Peter Maier and Karel Capek | |||||
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Insect Play, The |
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Four Plays by Capek" published by Methuen | ISBN | 9780413771903 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Karel Capek. Translated by Peter Maier and Karel Capek | |||||
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Makropulos Case, The |
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Four Plays by Capek" published by Methuen | ISBN | 9780413771903 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Karel Capek. Translated by Peter Maier and Karel Capek | |||||
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Makropulos Case, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Four Plays by Capek" published by Methuen | ISBN | 9780413771903 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Karel Capek. Translated by Peter Maier and Karel Capek | |||||
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Mother, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1939 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Karel Capek | |||||
| Synopsis: | Capek's dramatic swansong, The Mother is a powerful impassioned polemic on war provoked by years of huge social and political upheavals in the heart of Europe, written under the impact of the Spanish Civil War and the threat of Hitler against ?apek's own country. After losing four sons and her husband fighting for their high ideals on many different fronts, a widow clings to her last boy, Tony to save him from the same fate. | |||||
RUR |
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| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London, 1961 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Fantasy Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Karel Capek | |||||
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RUR |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Four Plays by Capek" published by Methuen | ISBN | 9780413771903 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Karel Capek. Translated by Peter Maier and Karel Capek | |||||
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RUR |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Four Plays by Capek" published by Methuen | ISBN | 9780413771903 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Karel Capek. Translated by Peter Maier and Karel Capek | |||||
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White Plague, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Four Plays by Capek" published by Methuen | ISBN | 9780413771903 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Karel Capek. Translated by Peter Maier and Karel Capek | |||||
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White Plague, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Four Plays by Capek" published by Methuen | ISBN | 9780413771903 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Karel Capek. Translated by Peter Maier and Karel Capek | |||||
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