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Meaning of tragicomedy in English

(Definition of tragicomedy from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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Let it be a tragicomedy.
Theatrical representations often encompassed several works; they began with a comic prologue, then a tragedy or tragicomedy, then a farce and finally a song.
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The themes in his work are self-exploration, tragicomedy, social and urban issues, sexuality, religion, memory and nostalgia and mythical/historical enactments.
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The fourth and fifth acts evolve into a tragicomedy with their episodes of rivalry, imprisonment, and even death.
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Although the royal court had grown tired of the tragedy (preferring the more-escapist tragicomedy), the theatergoing public preferred the former.
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Two figures helped to elevate tragicomedy to the status of a regular genre, by which is meant one with its own set of rigid rules.
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Dramatic poetry might include comedy, tragedy, melodrama, and mixtures like tragicomedy.
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The 1648, 1660, and 1682 editions were no longer subtitled tragicomedy, but tragedy.
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The possibility of revision has effected the question of the play's genre; some critics would define it as a tragicomedy.
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The work is styled a "tragicomedia pastorale" (pastoral tragicomedy).
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Theatrical representations often encompassed several works, beginning with a comic prologue, then a tragedy or tragicomedy, then a farce and finally a song.
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Many writers of the metamodernist and postmodernist movements have made use of tragicomedy and/or gallows humor.
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Produced under the communist regime, which it indirectly criticizes, it is a tragicomedy about incompetence, indifference and misuse of power.
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Originally referred to loosely as tragicomedy, the name was eventually shortened to simply comedia.
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Although the royal court had grown tired of the tragedy (preferring the more escapist tragicomedy), the theatre going public preferred the former.
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Translations of tragicomedy

in Chinese (Traditional)
悲喜劇(作品)…
in Chinese (Simplified)
悲喜剧(作品)…
in Spanish
tragicomedia…
in Portuguese
tragicomédia…
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