The archetypal poem, which has not survived, seems to have been a grim and violent work containing episodes of a coarse and even farcical character.
Vanbrugh planned The Relapse, too, round these limited casting resources and minor talents, which Peter Holland has argued explains the robust, farcical character of the play; Vanbrugh's second comedy, The Provoked Wife (1697), written for the better actors of the cooperative company, is a much subtler piece.
Farcical characters should speak in a manner befitting their social position; kings should intone with the elegance and dignity commensurate with their rank.
"The first thing Mike said to me was, 'Why is Pip such a little shit?' It sounds silly, I know, but there are two ways you can look at Dickens: one is as having these funny, farcical characters and the other is for real.
The whole thing is a farcical misunderstanding of five characters who see five different things".
A plot point about a mortifying home video that goes viral on the Internet drums up some conflict and humor, and later on there is a farcical face-off between the characters.
The scene sets the stage for the rest of the movie, a farcical romp that follows three characters stranded in a small town en route to a drag competition ― and now on the run from the cops.
A theater review on Wednesday about "Invasion!," at Walkerspace in TriBeCa, misidentified the character who sets off a farcical chain of events when he tells friends the name of his uncle in Lebanon, which they mock.
He refused to act out his character's death scene in a farcical way and also objected to the lateness of the "dreadfully banal" scripts, which were often written the night before filming.
In the 1960s the character devolved into outright camp in a farcical Batman television series.
