Light, dramatic composition that uses highly improbable situations, stereotyped characters, violent horseplay, and broad humour.
Farce is generally regarded as intellectually and aesthetically inferior to comedy in its crude characterizations and implausible plots, but it has remained popular throughout the West from ancient times to the present.
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