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1648 T. Pierce 3rd & 4th Pt. Pegasus 1 That Exit and Plaudite after the Pembroke-Tragico-puppet-play of The beginning of the World, or The new Creation.

1756 J. Warton Ess. on Pope I. iv. 207 Bartolomeo Bocchini..printed at Venice MDCXLI, a tragico-heroi-comic poem.

1799 T. Dutton in tr. A. von Kotzebue Pizarro in Peru Remarks 118 The last concluding scene of this eventful tragedy exhibits a tragico-comico-farcico-representation of the funeral obsequies of Rollo.

1811 E. Nares Think's-I-to-myself (ed. 5) I. (subtitle) A Serio-Ludicro, Tragico-Comico Tale.

1828 Vermont Watchman & State Gaz. 15 Apr. 2/6 By way of a finishing stroke to this delectable, tragico-farcical affair, a Convention was held at Le Roy.

1844 F. L. J. Thimm Lit. of Germany 118 Who will not admit the intensity of feeling, suggested to the mind by her tragico-poetic end?

1871 A. L. Alger tr. W. J. von Wasielewski Violoncello & its Hist. iii.158 The overture..is a powerful soul-painting, full of tragico-pathetic flights.

1906 Baroness Orczy I will Repay 18 All these comedies, these tragico-farces of later years.

1919 T. S. Eliot in Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Nov. 637/3 In Catiline Jonson conforms, or attempts to conform, to conventions..of tragico-historical drama.

1928 F. M. Ford Last Post v. 138 He did not care what became of him—but his not caring did not take any tragico-romantic form.

2006 S. Cohen Deportation is Freedom! xi. 180 Once again we are seeing the unacknowledged and tragico-farcical repetition of a suppressed history.