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Definition of Farces
1. farce [v] - See also: farce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Farces
Literary usage of Farces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theatrical Management in the West and South for Thirty Years by Solomon Smith (1868)
"New Names for Old farces. Managers of modern times have hit upon a novel mode of
... Old farces are presented with new titles, by which very simple means a ..."
2. Social life of the Chinese: With Some Account of Their Religious by Justus Doolittle (1866)
"... of several Sleight-of-hand Tricks.—Gamblers • Gambling common.—Many
Methods.— farces: Various popular farces. ..."
3. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"... of the Novels—The Voyage to Parnassus and Appendix — Cervantes' Patrons —
Publication of Comedies and farces — Poverty of the Author— Foreign Opinion. ..."
4. The Life of Mrs. Jordan: Including Original Private Correspondence, and by James Boaden (1831)
"... of Israel—Kemble's Lodoiska—Three farces three days together—Mrs. Jordan acts
for the widows and orphans made on the 1st of June—Three farces again, ..."
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