| 单词 | comedy-tragedy |
| 释义 | > as lemmascomedy-tragedy comedy-tragedy n. a play or (in later use) other literary or dramatic work which combines elements of comedy and tragedy; a tragicomedy. ΚΠ 1655 Duchess of Newcastle Worlds Olio 10 Satyr is more proper for a Comedy Tragedy then for pure Comedy. 1894 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 9 Mar. As a subject for recital he took the comedy-tragedy Henry IV. 1910 Daily Chron. 20 Jan. 6/6 Dickens makes the election a farce, Meredith treats it in a spirit of comedy-tragedy, Samuel Warren describes the contest with laboured realism. 1991 Theatre Jrnl. 43 260/1 A comedy-tragedy portraying the comical aspects of the awkward rituals and formalities which follow the death of a beloved. < as lemmas |
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