Often the pieces' plots involved mistaken identities and disguises.
Barney is a serial womanizer who concocts elaborate con games, usually involving costumes and fake identities, designed to bed women, only to lose interest in them immediately afterward.
Like farce, screwball comedies often involve mistaken identities or other circumstances in which a character or characters try to keep some important fact a secret.
Set in modern Portland, Oregon, the search for a shady businessman's lost keys reveals a plot involving murder, blackmail, and secret identities.
The story involves mistaken identities and farcical financial dealings at a European palace, following which the proper romantic partners are paired happily.
We still get all the comedies as uncomplicated variations on a simple plot involving endlessly confused identities and sexes.
A lively novel involving madness, false identities and the nature of authorship (Nicholson's 13th novel; he should know).
A man's position was above a woman's, causing a rising action that suited itself to tragedy, sentimental melodrama and comedies of manners that involved confused identities.
Stories involving secret identities are greatly appealing to children, and Francine Prose has written a lovely tale around this intriguing legend.
Much of the problem of ethnicity and nationalism vexing African states involves language-based identities which link or transcend older political groupings.