The insect play
By: Karel Capek ; translated by Peter Majer
Contributors: Majer, Peter, translator
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Satirical plays
Work titles: Života hmyzu
Description: 'The Insect Play' is an unconventional and much-celebrated satire which tells the story of myriad insects and the multi-layered and complex society which binds them; its comical allegory serves to illuminate the competing philosophies of life doing battle in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. It was first performed in Prague in 1922.
Notes: Translated from the Czech.