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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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Restless eros has been converted into sculpture, the eros tragicomically struggling to invent a shape adequate to its intensity, the restlessness transformed into the theatrical eccentricity that shows there is no s uch shape. Youth was just as troubling and just as hopeful, and it ushered in a whole new set of sexual feelings, which were the perfect comic fuel for Jean-Pierre Leaud, the matchless actor who immortalized Truffaut's tragicomically self-dramatizing alter ego, Antoine Doinel, in five movies over twenty years: The 400 Blows (1959), the "Antoine and Colette" episode of the 1962 omnibus effort Love at Twenty, Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970), and Love on the Run (1979). Yet, of course, both were fake, and the brain crept about erratically, while the "heart" was a pump that sucked and thrusted tragicomically. |
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