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Farces meaning
plural of farce
Example sentences (8)
Like the French playwright’s farces, “POTUS” is rife with doors slammed; entrances and departures hastily made; disasters courted and perhaps averted.
Among his early works were short monologues (“The Evils of Tobacco”) and one-act farces ().
He should get an Alarmed Farces Parade.
He made silent films of every genre: social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants.
His acting talent was eventually discovered; and he adopted the names "Maccius" (a clownish stock-character in popular farces) and "Plautus" (a term meaning either "flat-footed" or "flat-eared," like the ears of a hound).
No Dough Boys (again 1944) is often considered the best of these farces.
Some of these farces were only partly written, and were played in the style of Commedia dell'arte with improvisation over a canovaccio (a vague plot outline).
Wilmeth and Miller, p. 182 In New York in the summer of 1753, they performed ballad-operas, such as The Beggar’s Opera, and ballad-farces.