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The anthor of The British Theaire has mentioned a play with both these titles, which he calls a tragi-oomedy, and gives it the date of l66a.

Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse: 1782

As the private narrative develops into the modern novel, we see comic and tragic elements utilised, played off against each other, fused in tragi-comic works such as CATCH-22, or underplayed to achieve an illusion of naturalism or social realism.

Strange Fiction 7 Hal Duncan 2006

As the private narrative develops into the modern novel, we see comic and tragic elements utilised, played off against each other, fused in tragi-comic works such as CATCH-22, or underplayed to achieve an illusion of naturalism or social realism.

Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006

In the latest extract from his explosive new book, he recalls a tragi-comic occasion ...

OpEdNews - Quicklink: FISK: How the world was duped: the race to invade Iraq. 2005

In the latest extract from his explosive new book, he recalls a tragi-comic occasion ... '

OpEdNews - Quicklink: FISK: How the world was duped: the race to invade Iraq. 2005

Commons, for the third time, played what Burke called the tragi-comedy of declaring the election void.

A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871

Of that species of writing termed tragi-comedy, much has been produced and doomed to the shelf.

Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

Over the course of seven albums since 1996, they have quietly become one of the UK's most popular bands, adored for their exquisite pop sensibility and lyrics that not only owned a kind of tragi-comic precision but that were also sharply, sorrowfully beautiful.

Love, Belle and Sebastian-style Laura Barton 2010

I realize that that's not what the author chose to focus on, but my God, choosing to base an identity politics ( "tragi") comedy on a slaver is about as misguided as the warm-family-tragicomedy-in-Nazi-death-camp peesashit "Life is Beautiful" was.

SeeLight: 2007

I realize that that's not what the author chose to focus on, but my God, choosing to base an identity politics ( "tragi") comedy on a slaver is about as misguided as the warm-family-tragicomedy-in-Nazi-death-camp peesashit "Life is Beautiful" was.

Reading Update 2007