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