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Low comedy   /loʊ kˈɑmədi/   Listen
Low comedy

noun
1.
A comedy characterized by slapstick and burlesque.





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"Low comedy" Quotes from Famous Books



... to sit among the elect, if you will; talk of his tendency to farce and caricature; call his humour low comedy, and his pathos bathos—although you shall say none of these things in my presence unchallenged; the fact remains that every child, in America at least, knows more of England—its almshouses, debtors' prisons, and law-courts, its villages and villagers, its beadles and cheap-jacks ...
— Penelope's English Experiences • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... part,' said Miss Hender; but seeing that Kate did not understand, she hastened to explain that the low comedy parts ...
— A Mummer's Wife • George Moore


Words linked to "Low comedy" :   comedy


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