Farce

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                                                     Farce
Farce:- is a comic dramatic piece that uses highly improbable situations, stereotyped characters, extravagant exaggeration, and violent horseplay.
The term also refer to the class of form of drama made up of such compositions. Farce is generally regarded as intellectually and aesthetically inferior to comedy. In its crude characterization and implausible plots, but it has been sustained by its popularity in performance and has persisted throughout the western world to the present.

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