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The works of Marcel Dube are a testimony of the French Canadian society's evolution, at a time when its cultural and social identity was being questioned. Beyond any doubt, his plays had a strong influence upon Quebecers during the fifties and sixties. Dube's dramatic works have instigated the interest of critics throughout Canada and also in the United States and Europe. / This thesis represents an analysis of five plays written by Marcel Dube giving clear indication of the universality of his works, particularly based on unpublished documents. These plays were written almost thirty years ago; nevertheless, they are still alive and applauded nowadays, which corroborates their universality. Also, on the unpublished recording tapes, actress Monique Miller, actor Jean Duceppe and author and critic Jean Ethier-Blais dwell precisely on the universality of Dube's works. Therefore I thought advisable to study this particular topic in the following plays: Zone, Florence, le temps des lilas, Bilan and Au retour des oies blanches. / On these unpublished recording tapes, Marcel Dube talks about himself and his life as a writer. We learn about his childhood, the beginning of his career, the people who surrounded and encouraged him, the social, cultural, and political environment that prevailed at the time he wrote his most famous plays. He also acknowledges his mistakes, his weaknesses, his ambitions and talks about the motives that prompted him to become a writer. / Furthermore, well known author and critic Jean Ethier-Blais expresses his ideas and feelings regarding the author and his works. Actors and personal friends Monique Miller and Jean Duceppe recollect the circumstances and the effect the dramatic art of Marcel Dube has had on French Canadian culture.

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L’objet de ce mémoire consiste en l’analyse de la représentation de la figure féminine dans l’œuvre scénique de Marcel Dubé, notamment dans les pièces Zone, Florence, Bilan, ainsi que Virginie. Mettant à l’avant-plan des personnages féminins, ces quatre œuvres traversent deux périodes dans la production de l’auteur et dans l’histoire du Québec, soit la Grande Noirceur, sous le règne de Maurice Duplessis, et la Révolution tranquille annoncée par le gouvernement de Jean Lesage. En mettant en scène successivement une adolescente (Zone), deux jeunes femmes (Florence et Bilan) et une femme d’âge mûr (Virginie), le dramaturge trace une certaine évolution dans la représentation des femmes non seulement dans son théâtre, mais également dans la société québécoise qui lui était contemporaine. Notre mémoire propose ainsi une lecture féminine et sociocritique de ces quatre pièces de Dubé à une époque charnière de l’histoire du Québec. / This study concerns the representation of female figures in Marcel Dubé’s theater, especially in four plays featuring women as main characters: Zone, Florence, Bilan, and Virginie. The plays themselves span two periods of Québec’s history, from the Grande Noirceur up to the Révolution tranquille, thus allowing for a certain evolution in the characterisation of the female roles at the time. By choosing to stage a teenager (Zone), two young women (Florence and Bilan), and a mature woman (Virginie) in these plays, Dubé traces a portrait of the female character that is not only pertinent to his work, but which also reflects major changes taking place in the society of Québec at that time. Our feminist and sociocritical reading of the author’s plays offers then a new perspective on Dubé’s work in the context of Québec history.