Farce vs Pantomime - What's the difference?
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(lb) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method; compare sarcasm .
(lb) A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
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(lb) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
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, title= (lb) A ridiculous or empty show.
To stuff with forcemeat.
(figurative) To fill full; to stuff.
* Bishop Sanderson
(obsolete) To make fat.
* Ben Jonson
(obsolete) To swell out; to render pompous.
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* Tylor
(historical) The drama in ancient Greece and Rome featuring such performers; or (later) any of various kinds of performance modelled on such work.
(UK) A traditional theatrical entertainment, originally based on the commedia dell'arte, but later aimed mostly at children and involving physical comedy, topical jokes, and fairy-tale plots.
Gesturing without speaking; dumb-show, mime.
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To gesture without speaking.
To entertain others by silent gestures or actions.
As nouns the difference between farce and pantomime
is that farce is while pantomime is pantomime (type of entertainment where players act out ideas without use of their voice).farce
English
(wikipedia farce)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
- Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer languageunderstood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce , or a ballade , or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao, passage=The first match in the magnificent new national stadium was a Euro 2012 qualifier between Romania and France that soon descended into farce as the pitch cut up and players struggled to maintain their footing. Amorebieta at times seemed to be paying homage to that game, but nobody else seemed to have a problem; it was just that Falcao was far better than him.}}
Derived terms
* farcicalEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(farc)- The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets.
- if thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs
- farcing his letter with fustian
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(wikipedia pantomime)Noun
(en noun)- [He] saw a pantomime perform so well that he could follow the performance from the action alone.
- A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.
- In pantomime , Chief Joyi would fling his spear and creep along the veld as he narrated the victories and defeats.
citation, page= , passage=With the Stoke supporters jeering Ziv's every subsequent touch, the pantomime atmosphere created by the home crowd reached a crescendo when Ziv was shown a straight red shortly after the break in extraordinary circumstances.}}
