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tragicomedy

Drama that contains scenes or features of both tragedy and comedy.

English dramatist Shakespeare's tragicomedies, such as The Winter's Tale (1610–11), reach a tragic climax but then lighten to a happy conclusion. A tragicomedy is the usual form for plays in the tradition of the Theatre of the Absurd (see Absurd, Theatre of the), such as Samuel Beckett's En attendant Godot/Waiting for Godot (1952) and TomStoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967).



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