farce-comedy

• “It removed any sentimental awkwardness which might have attached to the episode, and yet the girl rather resented its being so completely reduced to terms of farce-comedy.”

  Then I'll Come Back to You

• “She had suddenly remembered the pale, gaunt man who had walked into the eating-house the previous morning and walked out again, his errand turned into farce-comedy by the cowardice of an unworthy antagonist.”

  Judith of the Plains

• “Keeler's "In and Out" [1] do not lend weight to the ending, but seem introduced merely to heighten the cumulative effect of the farce-comedy, does not prove them, or the offering, to be lacking in entertainment value for vaudeville.”

  Writing for Vaudeville

• “Nicholas Udall, took the further step of writing for his boys on the classical model an original farce-comedy, the amusing 'Ralph Roister”

  A History of English Literature

• “Quite unlike the “Seven Days” in the delightful farce-comedy of that name, in which everything happened, here nothing seemed to happen.”

  A Backward Glance at Eighty

• “But the farce-comedy had to be properly staged if the Marshal and the”

  Address to the Jury

• “But the farce-comedy had to be properly staged if the Marshal and the District Attorney were to earn immortality.”

  Address To The Jury

• ““It's a farce-comedy; sentiment always begins romantically and ends in laughter ” tabulae solvuntur risu.”

  Oscar Wilde

• “Who can ever forget the scene between the town and country girl in that delightful farce-comedy.”

  Oscar Wilde

• “A familiar figure in modern farce-comedy is the comic conspirator with finger on lip, tiptoeing round in fear of listeners.”

  The Dramatic Values in Plautus

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