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tragicomedyLiterary 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. a drama in which aspects of both tragedy and comedy are found b. the dramatic genre of works of this kind |
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In a nutshell: Light but enjoyable seriocomedy about a selfish baseball player who has to rejoin the team, a decade after retiring, to secure his record. The promo package endows this seriocomedy, which concerns lies and corruption in high-government corridors at the crest of a century, with metacontemporary urgency. The Canadian film musical Zero Patience and the Broadway hit Rent may have scoped out this territory, and the recent seriocomedy Playing by Heart added more fodder for hetero couples learning the HIV blues, but Jeanne and the Perfect Guy is a welcome wrinkle on the AIDS soaper. |
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