tragicomedy in English
noun
1
a play or novel containing elements of both comedy and tragedy.
It's like a romantic comedy written by Beckett - a romantic tragicomedy - in which romance dies not in some passionate combustion, but fizzles out into uncomfortable, aseptic banality.
noun
seriocomedy
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1. Initially issued as a tragicomedy, Le Cid proved an immense popular success
2. Creditors (Swedish: Fordringsägare) is a naturalistic tragicomedy by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg
3. 6 Tragicomedy gives the disjunction of the subjective and objective visions of the human situation dramatic form.
4. The Bondman is a later Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by Philip Massinger, first published in 1624