@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00027920, author = {八鳥, 吉明 and Hachitori, Yoshiaki}, journal = {IVY}, month = {Oct}, note = {This paper investigates some political facets of Measure for Measure, by elucidating the character of the Duke who occupies the position of an actor­-dramatist. In the face of a political and social crisis, the Duke, regarding the world as a theater, produces a play. For the Duke as an actor-dramatist, the skills of performance are directly connected with the forms or techniques of power. These forms of power comprise both a totalizing and an individualizing form of power. The former concerns the institutional rule of the Viennese community as a whole: the latter the control of each individual. The Duke as a dramatist promotes totalizing procedures: as an actor, he supports individualizing procedures. The Duke as a dramatist ultimately aims to reconstruct the static world as a theater. For this purpose, he exploits Angelo, arranges the bed-trick, and dramatizes the show trials and pardons. The Duke actualizes his own plot for his own sake. Furthermore, in order to make his plot that of a comedy, he forces four marriages. Thus he tries to become the source of law, authority and power. That is, he attempts to establish an absolute and totalitarian government. The duke as an actor plays the role of friar. This role enables him to visit and conquer the souls of the other characters. In other words, he comes to control them from within. This internalized control makes them subjects and perfects the process of subjection. This technique of power can be called the pastoral power. For example, Isabella, Mariana and Angelo come to show this internalized obedience. But the Duke's strategies meet with considerable resistance. As a dramatist, he often experiences the situation which he cannot cope with. The improvisational acts of the other characters always violate his plot. Even four marriages do not bring about an ideal ending. Similarly, as a friar, he meets those who resist the process of subjection. In this context, IsabeIla's silence at the end of the play becomes problematic for him. In addition, her silence implies his repressed sexual desire which resembles that of Angelo's. Behind the Duke's play lurks his sexual desire, and its existence makes his play fundamentally unstable. The characters who resist the Duke's control do not show stability or coherency in strength, too. Some are only passively resistant; some are recuperable for the dominant; some are even exploitative. Therefore the relationship between the dominant and the resistant never develops into a hot battle. Although the dominant incessantly attempts to make the resistant recuperable, this attempt always reproduces resistance. So the relationship only becomes a lukewarm equilibrium., 本論は、日本英文学会中部支部第47回大会(1995年10月7日金沢大学文学部)において行われた口頭発表に大幅な加筆・修正を加えたものである。}, pages = {25--45}, title = {Measure for Measure における権力の自己劇化}, volume = {29}, year = {1996} }