The Makropulos Affair.
This author wrote a play about a woman who lives for three hundred years, The Makropulos Affair. This writer told of Mr. Bondy's attempt to get the title characters to work on hydroengineering projects instead of the pearl-fishing industry in a play about intelligent amphibians found on an island near Sumatra. This author of The War With the Newts also wrote a play in which Marius, Sulla, and Radius are among the title mechanical people manufactured by the Rossum's Universal factory. For 10 points, name this Czech author who invented the word "robot" in his play R.U.R..
This author wrote a play about a woman who lives for three hundred years,
Karel {Capek} ({CHAH}-{peck})