tragi-comedy

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amusing play that also contains sad elements
A tragi-comedy is a play or other written work that is both sad and amusing
tragicomedy
A drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy
tragicomedy
{n} a merry and serious drama
tragicomedy
{i} drama that's both a comedy and a tragedy, play with both happy and sad moments
tragicomedy
A drama that combines elements of drama and comedy
tragicomedy
A literary work that contains elements of both comedy and tragedy
tragicomedy
a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating
tragicomedy
tragicomedies a play or a story that is both sad and funny. Literary genre consisting of dramas that combine elements of tragedy and comedy. Plautus coined the Latin word tragicocomoedia to denote a play in which gods and mortals, masters and slaves reverse the roles traditionally assigned to them. In the Renaissance and after, tragicomedy was mainly comic, though Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies almost always include some comic or grotesque elements. Modern tragicomedy is sometimes used synonymously with absurdist drama, which suggests that laughter is the only response left to people faced with an empty and meaningless existence
tragicomedy
a comedy with serious elements or overtones
tragicomedy
A kind of drama representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy
tragicomedy
A type of drama that combines certain elements of both tragedy and comedy The play’s plot tends to be serious, leading to a terrible catastrophe, until an unexpected turn in events leads to a reversal of circumstance, and the story ends happily Tragicomedy often employs a romantic, fast-moving plot dealing with love, jealousy, disguises, treachery, intrigue, and surprises, all moving toward a melodramatic resolution Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice is a tragicomedy See also comedy, drama, melodrama, tragedy
tragicomedy
A experimental Renaissance literary work--either a play or prose piece of fiction--containing elements common to both comedies and tragedies