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Definition of Farce comedy
1. Noun. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Farce Comedy
Literary usage of Farce comedy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Comedians All by George Jean Nathan (1919)
"Thus, while in his very first sentence he says that the piece is a farce comedy,
he finds fault with the farce comedy because the farce comedy achieves ..."
2. Shakspere's predecessors in the English drama by JOHN ADDINGTON. SYMONDS (1884)
"... Comedy—Fletcher's Romantic Comedy and Comedy of Intrigue—Hybrids between
Pastoral and Allegory—Farce—Comedy of Manners—Jonson.—XIV. ..."
3. Fifth Avenue Events: A Brief Account of Some of the Most Interesting Events by Fifth Avenue Bank of New York (1916)
"... the throng and approach the General were announced to him by a little man who
got most of them wrong, and the affair took on an air of farce-comedy. ..."
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