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What is a tragicomedy?

What is a tragicomedy? Here are some definitions.

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  1. A drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy.
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This tragedy is transformed into a tragicomedy, and indeed, into a farce, by a mechanical device that belongs more to vaudeville than to a novel.
Okay, so your life hasn't been made into a movie yet, but some days it has all of the makings of a studio tragicomedy.
Unfortunately the formula that produces big laughs on screen is somewhat less amusing for the fans of this latter long-running tragicomedy.
The terms black comedy and tragicomedy imply a mix of the mordant and the humorous.
But any significant new insights into that strange, perverse Jacobean tragicomedy contrived to pass me by.
The play also captures something of Beckett's absurdist tragicomedy Waiting for Godot.

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