vaudevilles

• He had returned home from Italy after a residence of several years abroad, just at the time when Heiberg's vaudevilles were intoxicating the inhabitants of Copenhagen, and when my “Journey on Foot” was making me a little known. —  The True Story of My Life
• Obscene and filthy vaudevilles, defamatory libels and infamous slanders were as common as bread, and were hurled back and forth as evidence of an internecine strife which was raging around the wearer of the Roman scarlet, who was thereby justified in continuing his ecclesiastical rule to prevent the wrecking of the throne. —  Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century
• It is the first masterpiece of the eighteenth-century comιdie de moeurs Much of Lesage's dramatic work was produced only for the hour or the moment--pieces thrown off, sometimes with brilliance and wit, for the Thιβtres de la Foire_, where farces, vaudevilles, and comic opera were popular. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• There he wrote a number of small vaudevilles or musical comedies, which were successful; and his music for the harpsichord, consisting almost exclusively of small pieces with descriptive titles, soon began to be widely played in France. —  Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
• After all the vaudevilles, tragedies, and comedies which had been played under the worthy man's eyes for twelve long years, he could not detect the insincerity and grimaces of social comedy, no doubt because he had seen too much of it. —  Poor Relations

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