Actually, the shape-shifting plot of "Comedy" takes its cues more from "The Guardsman," Molnar's sexual farce of assumed identity, than from Shakespeare.

Several of his earlier books were light-hearted sexual farces; his later titles included several thrillers.

"Night Court" descended into a sexual farce.

British sexual farce - and particularly that of Orton's variety - demands a quick and quirky public.

The play is a sexual farce involving five very different people lured to a New York loft in expectation of a sexual adventure.

His particular talent is for intricately plotted sexual farce.

"David Leveaux's production delivers clarity, and considerable thoughtfulness, amid the zinging repartee and sexual farce," writes Emma John in the Observer.

But beneath the sexual farce and garish social events, such as the thinologist's dog's funeral, there remains the clear comment that the greedy masters and servants are one another's doubles.

A large, entertaining novel with four main characters, all writers, and lots of sexual farce and occasional brutality.

In 1974 the disaster was used as the backdrop for the play Titanic, which D. Brian Anderson characterises as "a one-act sexual farce".