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For those who demand precision in their taxonomies, I’m not confident I could wholly say what distinguishes farce from straight comedy. It’s certainly a more extreme (outrageous?) vehicle for mining laughter. Albert Bermel wrote this whole book that surveys the subject without offering much help. Two pages into his first chapter (page 14 as published), he writes, “I haven’t come across a plausible definition and I won’t attempt one.” He then proceeds to consider common elements he finds farcical...
The book itself is a farce. The author provides a lot of examples but gives a very personal definition of the genre. His references to the other theatrical trends is also very approximative and lack seriousness. Of course, he warns us in his introduction that he wanted to write a reference book on farce that would be accessible to everybody and not only students and scholars, but vulgarization should not mean over-simplication and far-fetched interpretation (my "favourite" one being: "Farce come...
