Sentence examples for comic play from inspiring English sources

The same goes for Aubrey Beardsley's drawings for a production of Lysistrata - a comic play gets comically large phalloi - and early nude photographs; amusement and titillation were surely high on the agenda.

Lydia Languish, fictional character, the sentimental heroine of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comic play The Rivals (1775).

It's real even though it's apparently a heightened and comic play.

In London Peter Quilter's comic play Glorious! received Olivier nominations and has continued to be performed.

And Ms. Jones burdens an essentially comic play with a thudding tragic center.

Despite all this, The Humans somehow remains a deeply compassionate and wildly comic play.

"THE TREASURE", a comic play in one act, opened for a single matinée in Rajsamand last month.

Like all of Max and Ivan's work, it's a comic play in which Olesker and Gonzalez play all the characters.

These driving, joyous interludes help turn a well-made comic play into an entertainment with the lift of an exhilarating musical.

Pinski's most successful work was the comic play Der oytser (1911; "The Treasure"), which was performed in New York City and Germany.

Sir Anthony Absolute, fictional character, the father of Captain Jack Absolute and with him a protagonist of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comic play The Rivals (1775).