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tragicomedy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | seriocomedy |
| Type of | comedy |
| Derivation | tragicomical |
tragicomedy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | tragedy |
| Derivation | tragicomic, tragicomical |
Examples of tragicomedy
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For want of a better tag, the movie is a romantic tragicomedy about that process.
From the npr.org
There is no complete formal definition of tragicomedy from the classical age.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Welcome laughs did come in the end from Swedish tragicomedy The Wedding Photographer.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The tragicomedy ends by making a rule that hurts also the Slovaks not only Hungarians.
From the economist.com
Tragicomedy is fictional work that blends aspects of the genres of tragedy and comedy.
From the en.wikipedia.org
All three became staples of continental tragicomedy for a century and more.
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Satyr plays were an ancient Greek form of tragicomedy, similar in spirit to burlesque.
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Reading the business press in India can be much like reading a Shakespearean tragicomedy.
From the online.wsj.com
He's hoping the world is more accepting of a tragicomedy about suicide.
From the denverpost.com
- A dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating
- Seriocomedy: a comedy with serious elements or overtones
- Tragicomedy is fictional work that blends aspects of the genres of tragedy and comedy. In English literature, from Shakespeare's time to the nineteenth century, tragicomedy referred to a serious play with either a happy ending or enough jokes throughout the play to lighten the mood.
- A experimental literary work--either a play or prose piece of fiction--containing elements common to both comedies and tragedies. ...
- Drama or film in which the serious actions, harsh truths, and threatening situations of tragedy are combined with the lighter tone and generally happy conclusions of comedy. Example: Shakespeare, Measure for Measure; M. Nichols, Carnal Knowledge.
- Genre of drama into which the vast majority of Alan Ayckbourn's plays fall. Although often described wrongly as a farceur, Alan Ayckbourn virtually defined the modern British tragi-comedy tradition with scores of plays since the early 1970s beginning with plays such as Time And Time Again and ...
- One of the principal dramatic genres, which blends serious and comic elements; frequently the serious is treated comically, while the comic is given a more somber treatment. The plays of Anton Chekhov and Samuel Beckett typify tragicomedy.
- A play which mingles tragic and comic elements in its plot and characterisation, such as The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline or Webster's The Devil's Law Case. A misture of tragedy and comedy.
- "tragedy is underdeveloped comedy" (SK106) and "some crucial/ documents of sad evil... may yet/... fuel the fires of comedy" (CP296)
