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 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.
Kerner praised Barth's "coherence of ... allegory", "depth of ... feeling for ideology", and "excellence of intention", but argues that the work's realistic style is at odds with the farcical, two-dimensional characters, who lack a "human and social setting" to give them roundedness and credibility.
In his opinion, Donkey Kong was "comical" and the ape character "farcical, childlike and nonsexual".
These characters suggest farcical archetypes as reinterpreted in Joe Orton's savage satires.
The whole thing is a farcical misunderstanding of five characters who see five different things".
But the subsidiary characters are farcical cartoons in a satire so unhinged that the movie seems to fly around squawking.
The director, David Leveaux, appropriately serves up a show that never seems to stop spinning, from its chic revolving set to the frantic, farcical movements of its characters.
DINING recently at the Bird and Bottle Inn, a pedigreed hostelry with enormous physical charm, I felt as if I had been unwillingly cast in a restoration comedy, the sort of farcical drama in which characters with names like Mistress Flummery and Mr. Botchit conspire to make a mockery of propriety.
