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Farce



Farce, comedy based on exaggeration and broad visual humor. Its traditional ingredients are improbable situations and characters developed to their limits. Farcical elements are present in the plays of Aristophanes, Plautus, Shakespeare, Molière, and many others; such 19th-century writers as Georges Feydeau and W.S. Gilbert helped establish farce as a respected theatrical form.



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