…His next work, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), along with Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, is considered a masterpiece of postwar American theater. Like its predecessor, Summer and Smoke (1948) also has a female protagonist who suffers from sexual repression, but the heroines of his next two works, Tattooed Roses (1950) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), are wild women who are repressed but do not give up and strongly assert themselves. His three works, also known as "black plays," Orpheus in the Underworld (1957), Suddenly This Summer (1958), and Sweet Birds of Youth (1959), all have in common the theme of a lonely poet-type protagonist who is persecuted and meets a miserable end. … *Some of the terminology that refers to "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…次の《欲望という名の電車》(1947)は,アーサー・ミラーの《セールスマンの死》とともに,戦後アメリカ演劇を代表する傑作とされた。《夏と煙》(1948)も前作と同じく性の抑圧に悩む女性を主人公にしているが,次の《ばらのいれずみ》(1950),《熱いトタン屋根の上の猫》(1955)の2作のヒロインは,抑圧されつつも挫折せず強く自己を主張する野性的な女性である。〈黒い戯曲〉とも呼ばれる3作《地獄のオルフェウス》(1957),《この夏突然に》(1958),《青春の甘き小鳥》(1959)では,孤独な詩人タイプの主人公が迫害されてむざんな最期をとげるテーマが共通している。… ※「《熱いトタン屋根の上の猫》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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