Karel Čapek (Critical Survey of Drama)

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Karel Čapek was essentially a thinker who used a variety of forms to express his philosophical and political ruminations. Aside from his dramatic writing, Čapek’s work falls into three categories: political and philosophical writing, tales, and novels. Among his political and philosophical publications are Pragmatismus (1918), a direct outgrowth of work he did in his doctoral program at Charles University. This was followed in 1920-1921 by Musaion, a collection of essays on modern art, in part an outgrowth of his doctoral dissertation,...

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