Farces

This Amufement they added to their Dances, and they produced what are now called Farces, or Burlettas.

Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces 1774

This means that it is not the Farces responsibility if you get there too slow and the person dies or if you crash on the way there as it was your choice to blue light it.

Policing Pledge Response Times – The Ugly Truth! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mayor Giuliani, recently we've learned that several talented, trained linguists, Arabic speakers, Farces (ph) speakers, Burdu (ph) speakers trained by the U.S. government to learn those languages to help us in the war on terrorism were dismissed from the military because they announced they were gays or lesbians.

CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2007 2007

Thus, for instance, the old Fabliaux — the Farces of the fifteenth century, the story-tellers of the sixteenth — reveal one of the sides, one of the veins, so to speak, of our literature.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Thus, for instance, the old Fabliaux — the Farces of the fifteenth century, the story-tellers of the sixteenth — reveal one of the sides, one of the veins, so to speak, of our literature.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Farces he wrote, undoubtedly; and some element of farce, perhaps, entered to qualify nearly every comedy that flowed from his pen.

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

Mystery Plays had largely declined and Moralities and Interlude-Farces, themselves decadent, were sharing in rather confused rivalry that degree of popular interest which remained unabsorbed by the religious, political, and social ferment.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

Some time since the British Museum purchased for about 120l. a volume containing no less than sixty-four early French Farces and Moralities, printed between the year 1542 and 1548, of which a very large proportion was entirely unknown.

Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 Various

_Durfey_ and _Motteux_ wou'd write no more Farces; _Guildon_ and _Tom_.

A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) Anonymous

Farces, moralities, and follies (soties) were the kinds of compositions which they cultivated.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913