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Highly exaggerated comedies
Answer for the clue "Highly exaggerated comedies ", 6 letters:
farces
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Word definitions for farces in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drama \Dra"ma\ (dr[aum]"m[.a] or dr[=a]"m[.a]; 277), n. [L. drama, Gr. dra^ma, fr. dra^n to do, act; cf. Lith. daryti.] A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of ...
Usage examples of farces.
The audience is already familiar with them, from numerous performances in dozens of plays and farces, many of them largely improvised around certain standard types of situations.
With them, too, were some of the actors from the earlier farces, usually presented in rounds of four or five.
That character occurs probably in fifty to sixty percent of the farces constituting the repertory of such a company.