Lying is a human fault of mortals which is made easily. However, if the leader of a country always lies or deceives the public, isn’t it somehow a disaster to them? There is a saying,” Example is better than precept.” As we, are adults, should consider that whether our behavior is able to be an exact model of children or not. According to this idea, “The king’s face disappears” a play of children comes out.
There are two parts in the thesis. The first part illustrates the creation of the play with six chapters. The main interpretation of the contents which is by means of the children’s psychological and ethical cognition development discusses the characteristics of the drama of children. And it analyses the development of children’s drama in Taiwan and points out the specialty of this thesis. Furthermore, it debates the origins, types, traits of the old Greek comedies with Aristotle’s theory, “ Poetics”. With the basis of the theory and the sample of the script of Aristophanes, the intention and methods of the creation get further exposition. Otherwise, it makes the author’s ideas to the creation more sure and clearly.
The second part is the presentation of the play. It obtains materials from the Chinese classical fairy tales. The scientist, Honest Wolf, from Formosa Empire is the center role. The vivid moral character and events bring out the deceit topics. Then the finding-face journey of the king who lost his face expresses the confession of faults, retrieves his own main thought, and reaches the effect of allegory and the function of learning through playing.