著者

有元 伸子

出版者

物語研究会

雑誌

物語研究 (ISSN:13481622)

巻号頁・発行日

no.14, pp.28-42, 2014-03-31

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This essay looked into Sotoba Komachi, one of the "Modern Noh Plays" adapted by Yukio Mishima, by using Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity. Mishima viewed Noh as verse drama in which a script itself serves as a dramatic performance with a life of its own, and came to introduce playwriting techniques to his writing of original works. This essay understands his scripts as a play about a journey to acquiring male gender identity through the speech-act, while also pointing out that Mishima's theatrical world reveals the theoretical nature of gender and instability of norms.