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2009
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farce
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n.
a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.
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the genre of such works.
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an absurd event:
the debate turned into a drunken farce.
DERIVATIVES: far·ci·cal adj. a farcical tangle of events.
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Six Medieval French Farces.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Newspaper article from: Reviewer's Bookwatch; 3/1/2006; ; 515 words
; ...Six Medieval French Farces provides students and...compilation include "The Farce of the Miller" (La...Gentleman and Nauder" (La farce du gentilhomme et Naudet...Original Text--from the Farce of the Miller), each...Six Medieval French Farces is a worth addition to...
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Sara Beam. Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...1450 and 1550 the "heyday" of farce, Beam argues that farce's bawdy humor was tolerated...s personal honor" (18). Farces "often pointed lessons of obedience...energies" (58). Beam notes that farce was always somewhat controlled...
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Priscilla Melendez. The Politics of Farce in Contemporary Spanish American Theatre.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Symposium; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...theater. Admitting that the farce continues "to be placed on...goals is to demonstrate that farce in Latin America creates and...American playwrights create farces as a way "to communicate from...of the various definitions of farce and reviews critical attitudes...
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Putting the 'haute' back into the 'haute dame de Paris': the politics and performance of Rabelais's Radical Farce.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: French Forum; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...of references to farces, and many episodes...structured with a farce-like framework...150 extant French farces dating from this...best known being the Farce de Maitre Pathelin...de passages [des farces], voire plus...text refers to a farce in which Rabelais...
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The Rashomon of Farces: Noises Off Leaves Us Rolling.(Arts&Entertainment)(Review)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 11/12/2001; 700+ words
; ...an unbelievably bad English farce performed by a tatty provincial...who are even worse than the farce they're performing. Mr...terrible real-life West End farces, No Sex, Please--We're...to. Nothing On, the inner farce of Noises Off, is therefore...
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Theatre: Oh my! That's a big comeback you've got there It's just a puerile, sexist form of popular entertainment, isn't it? Veronica Lee makes the case for farce
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/11/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...the 1920s to 1940s), when farce sank into a cliche of the blue...theatre of the past few decades, farce had had its day. But lately...no less, has presented two farces - Alan Ayckbourn's House...in the past year. Now a new farce, Under the Doctor, is about...
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Mistaken identity starts a bedroom farce
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Post; 2/2/2005; 700+ words
; ...reason on a public holiday, there was a farce on the telly. Ian McMillan It was always...tinny) and the curtain would open and the farce would begin. These days, as a man on...of 50, I understand the intricacies of farce; as a man spending much of this year writing...
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ARTS & FARCES' Information Eclipse Cautions Citizens in Ever-More Wired Era.
PR Newswire; 3/4/1999; 700+ words
; ...and access to information published by ARTS & FARCES. For more detailed information on the book, including...sample chapters, and index, see: http://www.farces.com/farces/publications/info-eclipse/ About the Author...
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'Farce' has culinary meaning
Newspaper article from: Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.; 3/5/2006; 700+ words
; ...century, English adopted "farce" (spelling it "farse" until...stuffing or forcemeat." ("Farce" is ultimately derived from...The comedic sense of "farce" dates back to the 16th century...performances of religious plays. Such farces, which included clowning...
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Shhhh... Air Farce celebrates 300th episode
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press; 3/31/2007; 700+ words
; ...sketch comedy series The Royal Canadian Air Farce aired its 300th episode, a live special...episode 400) and Law and Order. If Air Farce were an American show, of course, you...have. I don't claim to be a devoted Air Farce watcher. But whenever I've caught it...
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Farce
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...influence of the French farce was paramount in...centuries short one-act farces were popular on the...A full-length farce which still holds...series of successful farces at the Aldwych Theatre...robust character, farce survives translation...in England of the farces of Feydeau , ...
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farce
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...into church plays. The farce emerged as a separate...plays as the anonymous La farce de Maître Pierre...earliest and best-known farces are Ralph Roister Doister...plays called "bedroom farces," best exemplified...In the 20th cent., farce found new expression...
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Farce‐Comedy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Farce‐Comedy. This genre of prototypical...dialogue. The tremendous and sudden rage for farce‐comedy inevitably led writers...Greenroom Fun (1882). The names of early farce‐comedy troupes were entertainments...
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Atellan Farce
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Atellan Farce, see FABULA I : ATELLANA .
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Popular Theater
Book article from: American Eras
...Arms and the Man (1894). The Farce. Twentieth-century critics...1908) loosed the force of farce on the contemporary business...Harrigan worked a cycle of farces around his ditty “...Temperance Town (1892), a social farce. Perhaps the most popular actor...
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