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S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.

John Gay

They object against it as a farce, because the irregularity of the plot should answer to the extravagance of the characters, which they say this piece wants, and therefore is no farce.

John Gay.

We have often had tragi-comedies upon the English theatre with success; but in that sort of composition the tragedy and comedy are in distinct scenes.

John Gay.

The whole art of the tragi-comical farce lies in interweaving the several kinds of the drama, so that they cannot be distinguished.

John Gay.