The Makropulos Affair

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The Makropulos Affair (or The Makropulos Case) (Czech Věc Makropulos) is a play written by Karel Čapek and first performed on 21 November 1922 in the Vinohrady Theatre in Prague.[1] Between 1923 and 1925 the play was turned into an opera of the same name by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček, who wrote his own libretto.

The Makropulos Affair forms the centre of a classic article by Bernard Williams, in which he argues that a person never has reason to live an immortal life.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Details of Čapek's theatrical activities in 1922-3 (in Czech
  2. ^ Bernard Williams, "The Makropulos case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality", Problems of the Self, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.


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