'The Dragon' of Schwartz, written in Leningrad in 1943, the time when the 'Dragon' of Fascism threatens the town and the world. And as then the fascist forces won the battle, in the play, the battle wins the hero Lancelot the dragon killer. The director of the play, Panos Xaritoglou, mentions: 'The writer, with the title and its dramatic manoeuvre, seems to be interested only in the Dragondictator, the insidious politician, the blusterer murderer, with all its bureaucratic mechanism. Somewhere in the end of the play, however, he shows clearly his intentions, putting Lancelot as a liberator of the town to address to those who succumbed, defended and submitted to the Dragon the following phrase: 'I have to kill the Dragon which exists inside you'.
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