Farces formed a popular species of entertainment all through the years of the Renaissance.
The result was a species eminently characteristic of sixteenth-century Italy, and similar to the Atellan farces of the Romans.
We used to interpolate our farces with scenes and dialogues in which the famous quarrels of these women with their drunken husbands were reproduced to the life.
Beside tragic and comic pieces learned by heart, we frequently improvised farces with a slight plot upon some laughable motive.
But he will have Ennius take the ground-work of satire from the first farces of the Romans, rather than from the formed plays of Livius Andronicus, which were copied from the Grecian comedies.
And the first farces of the Romans, which were the rudiments of their poetry, were written before they had any communication with the Greeks, or indeed any knowledge of that people.
Seumas O'Kelly has written two strong dramas in The Shuiler's Child and The Bribe, and Seumas O'Brien one of the funniest Irish farces ever staged in Duty.
Her first husband had supported himself by writing burlesque farcesand poems.
Certain it is, however, that Lady Gregory's farces were a great help, both in building up and in holding the Abbey audience.
There are enough characters presented, too, peasants generally and townsfolk of the lower class, to make the farces a "reading of life.
Oh, the gentleman who is so droll that he makes me laugh, and whom I have sometimes seen play in the farces which everybody runs to see at his theatre in the Hotel de Bourgogne,--M.
A good way is to send for one copy of several farcesand pantomimes, then read and select what is best suited to your needs.
Even farces take little longer, and you cannot fail in rendering them.
I have frequently stated that the Oscan language, in which the Atellan farces were written, had once been the only tongue, and had continued to be the popular dialect of the Pompeians.
True the Comic Muse, long sick, as Garrick said in his prologue to She Stoops to Conquer, had almost died, though farces had done something to sustain her.
Fielding's and Garrick's little satires had largely avoided sentiment; and the personal, often gross farces of Foote had continued to use ridicule.
His talent as an author already had manifested itself by several farces and charades written for his colleague, M.
On this occasion and on all similar occasions the farces of Beaumarchais found no more spirited interpreters than his own sisters.
At Ryde during the previous summer my father had taken the theater, and Kate and I played in several farces which the Keeleys and the great comedian Robson had made famous in London.
We differ from the chroniclers as to this last opinion; it is probable that they cared only too much; it was to please the rabble that abominably gross farces were played in the paying theatres.
There are no farces now upon the French stage; the term is voted low.
Elaborate farces were organized to mystify the good people of Paris, of which Maxime du Camp gives a good example in his "Souvenirs Littéraires.
Then there were two little farces in which Ourliac covered himself with glory as the buffo.
He issued comic proclamations and almanacs, and even produced short farces in which his wife performed with him.
From one of these farces Molière is supposed to have borrowed the ideas for his sack-scene in the Fourberies de Scapin.
Here, as the title suggests, the comedies and farces are thoroughly Rabelaisian.
The material of these farces is extremely raw, consisting of rough jests at the expense of priests and foolish husbands, silly old men and their light wives.
From this time until his death he continued to pour out comedies, farces and romantic dramas, in all of which he displayed a coarse, rough genius not unlike that of Ben Jonson, whose immediate contemporary he was.
It was in the house of the daughters of Roemer Visscher that the tragedies of Vondel and the comedies of Bredero, the farces of Coster and the odes of Huygens, alike found their first admirers and their best critics.
It is astonishing with what pertinacity the characters in most farceswill bore one with their private affairs when they first appear!
Now in general it was not difficult to command a supply of smooth-faced young ensigns to personate the heroines, waiting-maids, and old women, of the comedies and farces to which our performances had been hitherto restricted.
Samary was famous for it, and her laughter in one of Molière's farces drew all Paris; and another French actress by her prodigious laughter in a farce at the Royalty raised the audience to hearty sympathetic outbursts.
They write farces or comedies, in an orthodox form, which contain a surprisingly small number of jokes or efforts at wit and humour.
In former days, putting aside the naughty farces not supposed to present a picture of actual life, most French dramas were quite sound in conventional morality.
Perhaps he is longing to have Caesar and Cleopatra represented by some amiable association that has hitherto confined itself to the comedies of Bulwer Lytton and farces by Maddison Morton.
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