Definition of "tragicomedy" [tragicomedy]

• A drama combining elements of tragedy and comedy. (noun)
• The genre made up of such works. (noun)
• An incident or situation having both comic and tragic elements. (noun)

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• "Does Irving move his readers in both directions, toward the comedy and the tragedy as the term tragicomedy implies?"
• "Marion Cotillard is set to lead Les Petits Mouchoirs, in what is described as Variety as a "tragicomedy", whatever the hell that is!"
• "In 1661, in a vulgar "tragicomedy" entitled _The Presbyterian Lash_, we find:"