Although the royal court had grown tired of the tragedy (preferring the more escapist tragicomedy), the theatre going public preferred the former.
Originally referred to loosely as tragicomedy, the name was eventually shortened to simply comedia.
Produced under the communist regime, which it indirectly criticizes, it is a tragicomedy about incompetence, indifference and misuse of power.
Many writers of the metamodernist and postmodernist movements have made use of tragicomedy and/or gallows humor.
Theatrical representations often encompassed several works, beginning with a comic prologue, then a tragedy or tragicomedy, then a farce and finally a song.
The work is styled a "tragicomedia pastorale" (pastoral tragicomedy).
The possibility of revision has effected the question of the play's genre; some critics would define it as a tragicomedy.
The 1648, 1660, and 1682 editions were no longer subtitled tragicomedy, but tragedy.
