Let it be a tragicomedy.
Theatrical representations often encompassed several works; they began with a comic prologue, then a tragedy or tragicomedy, then a farce and finally a song.
The themes in his work are self-exploration, tragicomedy, social and urban issues, sexuality, religion, memory and nostalgia and mythical/historical enactments.
The fourth and fifth acts evolve into a tragicomedy with their episodes of rivalry, imprisonment, and even death.
Although the royal court had grown tired of the tragedy (preferring the more-escapist tragicomedy), the theatergoing public preferred the former.
Two figures helped to elevate tragicomedy to the status of a regular genre, by which is meant one with its own set of rigid rules.
Dramatic poetry might include comedy, tragedy, melodrama, and mixtures like tragicomedy.
The 1648, 1660, and 1682 editions were no longer subtitled tragicomedy, but tragedy.
