舞台劇劇本是各種戲劇裡面最具有文學性的，它的劇本，除了提供表演之外，還可作為文學作品供讀者閱讀；而劇本中所反映出當時社會的種種現象，發人省思。本研究者因為教學需要研讀教育部文藝創作獎得獎的舞台劇劇本，其中感受到多篇的舞台劇劇本中的女性，無論是傳統或現代，都很難跳脫女性的悲情意識，在這個大社會的舞台上，永遠都只是一個「配角」。為了看出傳統社會中對女性的貶抑，本研究僅就80年代文藝創作獎得獎的舞台劇劇本，深入的去探討台灣傳統女性在追尋自我及尋求社會認同上的掙扎與無言的控訴。
Among the dramas, the script of stage play is most literary. Its script serves as not only as a drama performance but also as reading materials for readers; besides, the social realities reflecting in the drama are also stimulating our deep thought. As instruction materials, the author of this play had read over the awarded stage plays by Educational Ministry in the 80s. The author finds that lots of female characters, either traditional or modern one, are hard to prevent away from female tragic consciousness. They are always forced to play the role of minor actors in the stage of Great Society. For the study of inferior situations of females in the traditional society, scores of the awarded stage plays by Educational Ministry in the 80s were analyzed, and the study had covered the discussions of female’s useless struggle and silent protests in their course of seeking for self-assurance and social-identity.
