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David J. Viera
Bernardo Santareno based his posthumous work, O Punho, Qn several prior texts, and ja doing so brought to the atage two women characters who stand among lis most skillfolly drawn personages, especially the protagonist, Maria do Sacramento. Female personages in his works evolve according to Santarenos philosophy of the theater (i.e., it shoutd reflect existential preoccapations nr advocate social change). In his earty works, women chaltenged ritunis, mores, superstitions, and tradition, for which they were chastized, ostracized, nr deemed insane. The oppressive Satazar-Caetano dictatorship ted Santareno increasingty to emphasize plays underscoring socio-politicat change and to fiod inspiration in Bertolt Brecht and his Epie Theater. However, in playa written shortly befare and published after the t974 Portoguese cosap, Santsreno created femate protagonists by combining traits of che pre- nad post-l965 cyctes. And in O Panho he recalled these female characters along with other texts, che polities and social changes of post-1974 coop, the African War, and feminist perspectives.
