But why all this elaborate farce of the mock quarrel and the alleged mistake?

Gherardi was a man of culture, and he collected and edited a number of scenes, written in French, which were on the boards intermingled and played with the Italian farces in order to raise the tone of, and give something more solid and durable to, these entertainments.

BAYES (1 syl.), the chief character of The Rehearsal, a farce by George Villiers, duke of Buckingham (1671).

For my own part, I never presume to contemplate your Lordship, but my Soul bows with a perfect Veneration to your Mighty Mind; and while I have ador'd the delicate Effects of your uncommon Wit, I have wish'd for nothing more than an Opportunity of expressing my infinite Sense of it; and this Ambition, my Lord, was one Motive of my present Presumption in Dedicating this Farce to your Lordship.

They are of all sorts; there is a Methodist hymn for Sundays, and a farce for Saturday night.

Jamieson conveyed the farce from me to Mrs. C. Kemble; he will not be in town before the 27th.

"But," stammered the writer, "if our own farces with their plays on words and phrases of double meaning" "But at least they're in Castilian!"

Pulci, who is the first genuine romantic poet, in point of time, after Dante, seems, at first sight, in the juxtaposition, like farce after tragedy; and indeed, in many parts of his poem, he is not only what he seems, but follows his saturnine countryman with a peculiar propriety of contrast, much of his liveliest banter being directed against the absurdities of Dante's theology.

In the fifth edition (1721) of Gherardi's Théâtre Italien there are far fuller excerpts from the farce than in the first edition (1695).

I say "ostensible," because Mr. Labouchere had something to do with it, and Miss Henrietta Hodson, whom he afterwards married, played in the burlesques and farces without which no theater bill in London at that time was complete.

There is a little simple farce at Drury Lane, called "Miss Lucy in Town," in which Mrs. Clive mimics the Muscovita admirably, and Beard, Amorevoli tolerably.

In 1827, and the following years, he wrote a number of satirical farces under the signature Siful Sifadda.

Farce as an after-piece never appealed to me.

The General Post Office is a vast mechanism for the distribution of tragedy, comedy, melodrama, and farce throughout the country and throughout the world.

Could a farce on the stage be more amusing? To Rafael those "intellectuals" seemed to bring a breeze from out of doors into the close, sordid, vitiated air of the Chamber.