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This study examines two of Luigi Pirandello’s plays, Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV, with Pirandello’s aesthetical views on humor as a point of entry. Coupled with Mikhail M. Bakhtin’s interpretation of medieval humor, a doubling of meaning in Pirandello’s drama is revealed in light of the special activity of reflection Pirandello defined. In Six Characters in Search of An Author we find in humor and grotesque images a dispelling of the fear over the unchanging reality. In Henry IV we find in humor and grotesque images a dispelling of the monstrosity of the absence of a face behind the mask. We find Pirandellian humor and grotesque realism compensating each other in these discourses and therefore important in the understanding of these two plays.

Chinese Abstract i
Abstract ii
Acknowledgment iii
Tables of Content iv
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Pirandellian Humor
and Bakhtian Grotesque Realism 10
Chapter 2: Breaking the Illusion: Six Characters in Search of an Author 43
Chapter 3: Masking the Madness: Henry IV 63
Conclusion 77
Works Cited 79

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