著者

藤井 仁奈

出版者

文教大学大学院言語文化研究科付属言語文化研究所

雑誌

言語と文化 = Language and Culture (ISSN:09147977)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.24, pp.269-284, 2012-03-01

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Miyoji is a main character of Tempo 12nen no Shakespeare. He is a man of the humblest birth in Edo period; he is a cunning schemer who wants to be in the ruling classes by using words. He idntifies himself as an expert wordsman just like his master who was an expert swordsman. He commits crimes just like as Macbeth: an old which woman makes a prediction about him, which controls him completely. She also tells him that his taboo is one pair of twin women. However, he fervently feels a secret love for them and at last he rapes and kills one and he married the other after killing her husband. This violation of his taboo collapses his identity: he loses his ability to use words and takes his own llife. He can't use any trick or scheme with his wife. He is a defective schemer. This kind of absurdity, which Inoue wanted to write in this play, is put together into Miyoji. I hope to analyse Miyoji's identity as an expert wordsman while showing his contradiction and insanity and suggest the absurdity coming from Inoue's satire on this modern world.