A dramatização do mínimo essencial do mito de Antígona em António Sérgio

Abstract

Always with explicit political objectives, António Sérgio has recreated the myth of Antigone several times (1930, c. 1950, 1958) by adjusting it to the object of its contestation.
In the third and last version, in order to rebel against the Estado Novo authoritarian regime that, in the 1958 fraudulent presidential elections, had successfully led its candidate to power, Sérgio resorts to the essential minimal elements of the tragic plot that already incorporated the suitable and necessary rhetoric of protest and liberty.