sentence: Farces use slapstick and physical humour to be funny.
sentences_before: The play is a farce.
sentences_after: They also use absurd plots. A farce also makes serious situations funny. Fielding thought that theatre was becoming bad. He mocked theatre and theatre audiences in his play. Freeman 2002 pp.
concept_name: farce
headings: The Author's Farce Meaning
categories: 18th-century plays