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Images of R.U.R.

The first set of images are from the 1920 Prague publication of the script.  The title page is reproduced below.

Prague: Title Page (1920)

Prague: Set Designs

	Factory Office (between pp. 56 and 57)
	Helena's Drawing Room (between pp. 88 and 89)
	Alquist's Laboratory (plates preceding page 9)

Prague: Character Photos

Helena  (preceding p. 9)	Domain (preceding p. 9)	Alquist  (preceding p. 9)	Nana  (Helena's maid) (preceding p. 9)	Sulla  (an office Robotess) (between 56 & 57)

Varieties of Robots

	Robot Primus  (Prague; plates preceding page 9)
	Charicature by Josefa Capka.  "Dr UR KaRURel Capek, AUTOR UR RUR"  (201)  This illustration of the author as one of his Robots, and the caption, which intertwines the initials RUR within Capek's name, may suggest some of the  frustration Capek felt when the world insisted on  remembering him for what he felt was a minor play.
	Sketch of the Theatre Guild's New York production  (New York Evening Journal, 1922.)  (Undated in source; 143)
	"Fall of Mankind -- the Robots take possession"  London, 1923. (138)  "Kreslirovy dojmy z inscenace v  St. Martin's Theatre v. Londyne 1923.
	A Robot looms in the background of this caricature  from the 1924 Paris production (149)

The Robot Rebellion

Above:  The Robot rebellion in New York, 1922.  (plate following 168)	Above:  The same scene in Paris, 1924. (plate following 176)

The Robots and Alquist

The Robots plead with the last surviving  human to teach them how to reproduce. Theatre Guild, New York, 1922. (Plates following 168)

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