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Farce (Gianni Dagli Orti/Corbis)

Farce, form of drama intended to excite laughter through exaggeration and extravagance rather than by realistic imitation of life. It differs from...

Theatre (quotations): Theatre: Farce is the essential theatre.…

Farce is the essential theatre. Farce refined becomes high comedy, farce brutalized becomes tragedy.

Democracy (quotations): Democracy: There is no greater farce than to talk of…

There is no greater farce than to talk of democracy. To begin with, it is a lie; it has never existed in any great country.

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- absurd situation: a ridiculous situation in which everything goes wrong or becomes a sham
- comic play: a comic play in which authority, order, and morality are at risk and ordinary people are caught up in extraordinary events
- style of comic drama: the style of comic drama in which authority, order,...

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