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tragi-comedy|ˌtrædʒɪˈkɒmɪdɪ|
Also 6 tragy-, 7 trage-, tragœ-; see also comedy.
[a. F. tragi-comédie (1545 in Hatz.-Darm.) = It. tragi-comedia (Florio), ad. late L. tragicōmœdia (Lactantius a 325), syncopated from tragico-cōmœdia (Plautus); f. L. tragicus tragic + cōmœdia comedy.]
1. A play (or, rarely, a story) combining the qualities of a tragedy and a comedy, or containing both tragic and comic elements; sometimes spec. a play mainly of tragic character, but with a happy ending.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 65 The right sportfulnes, is [not] by..mungrell Tragy-comedie obtained. [1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. xxiii. 150 Our Dæmonopoiïa or Devill-fiction is Tragico-Comœdia, a mixture of both as Amphitryo in Plautus is.] 1640Killigrew (title) The Prisoners. A Tragæ-Comedy. 1652C. B. Stapylton Herodian Advt., He [Herodian] represents..the Emperors of that Age and their Courts, with Comedies, Tragedies and Tragicomedies. 1664R. Flecknoe (title) Love's Kingdom. A Pastoral Trage-Comedy. 1770Langhorne Plutarch (1879) I. 178/1 When tragedy took a graver turn, something of the former drollery was still retained, as in that which we call tragi-comedy. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 636 Shakspeare had borrowed from Whetstone the plot of the noble tragicomedy of Measure for Measure.
2. fig. An event or series of events of mixed tragic and comic character; a combination of pathetic and humorous elements in real life.
1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 619 His acts..may plainly shew, that all that was but a Tragi-comedy ceremoniously ended. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Cypress Grove Wks. (1711) 126 Every one cometh there to act his part of this tragi⁓comedy, called life. 1709Steele Tatler No. 36 ⁋5 What heightened the Tragi-Comedy of this Market for Annuities. 1838Lytton Calderon i, The Tragi-Comedy of Court Intrigue.
Hence ˌtragi-coˈmedian, an actor who performs in tragi-comedy; ˌtragi-comediˈetta (nonce-wd.), a slight or sketchy tragi-comedy.
c1626Middleton Mayor of Queenborough v. i, Comedians, tragedians, tragi-comedians.
1892Pall Mall G. 12 May 3/1 Tragedy is a name not to be taken in vain, least of all by a poet of Mr. Swinburne's calibre. *Tragi-comedietta would have come nearer the mark. |