Sometimes the theme of flirtation or female coyness blossoms forth in humorous interludes.
After a busy opening act, which features a nifty slapstick bout of wrestling and all that anyone needs to know about the incipient sweethearts Rosalind and Orlando, the play settles down into the woods for a contrasting series of humorous interludes concerning love in rural surroundings.
Steve Huey of Allmusic commented that, "given the variety of moods, it helps that the album is broken up by brief, usually humorous interludes, which serve as a sort of reset button.
The emotional choreography and sobering tales of love and battle are mixed with humorous theatrical interludes, primarily pointing to the trivialization of war in movies and fashion.
Alive with his magpie-like intelligence, punctuated by humorous asides and digressive interludes, they are as much a running commentary on the practices and preoccupations of a poet at the height of his own creative powers as they are an exposition of the works of another.
Many pleasures await young readers (and their parents) in "The Runaway Dolls," not least of which is the expected delight of Selznick's humorous illustrations — like the wordless interlude, lasting several pages, as the dolls take 20 minutes to cross a stream on a log.
These juegos (short satiric entertainments given by traveling players) antedated the plays that constitute one of Spain's main contributions to dramatic genres: the pasos, entremeses, and sainetes, all short, typically humorous works originally used as interludes.
