Antigone (English spelling)

…All of his early works portrayed the rebellion and defeat of pure young people against a sensual society poisoned by money and conventions through everyday and powerful dialogue. In particular, Antigone (1944), which was performed during World War II, in which Antigone stubbornly rebels against Creon, who represents the established law, and chooses to kill herself, was received with great acclaim by the audience in occupied Paris as a symbol of the resistance movement, but was also evaluated as an existential tragedy in that the play's impetus was sought not in the character's personality or psychology, but in the choice made in the situation. Since then, he has continued to write social satire plays, using his somewhat common but mature dramaturgical techniques, from “The Skylark” (1953), which features Joan of Arc as the protagonist and freely modernizes historical facts, to his recent work “Trousers” (1979), which satirizes the women's liberation movement. …

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…初期作品はいずれも金銭や因習に毒された俗物的な社会に対する純粋な若者の反抗と敗北を日常的で強烈なせりふによって描く。特に，第2次大戦中に上演された《アンティゴーヌAntigone》(1944)では既成の法を代表するクレオンにあくまで反抗して自ら死を選ぶアンティゴーヌが，占領下のパリの観客に抵抗運動の象徴と受け取られて絶賛される一方，劇の契機を登場人物の性格や心理ではなく，状況の中での選択に求めた点で実存主義的な悲劇としても評価された。以後，ジャンヌ･ダルクを主人公にし，史実を自由に現代化した《ひばり》(1953)から，女性解放運動を皮肉った最近作《ズボン》(1979)に至るまで，やや通俗的だが円熟した作劇術を駆使して社会風刺劇を書き続けてきた。…

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