113 examples of tragi-comedy in sentences

The Custom of the Country, a Tragi-Comedy; the plot taken from Malispini's Novels, Dec. 6. Nov. 6. 10.

The Honest Man's Fortune, a Tragi-Comedy; the plot from Heywood's History of Warner. 17.

The Lovers Progress, a Tragi-Comedy; built on a French romance called Lysander and Calista.

The Queen of Cornish, a Tragi-Comedy. 40.

Two Noble Kinsmen, a Tragi-comedy; Shakespear assisted Fletcher in composing this play.

The English Traveller, a tragi-comedy, acted at the Cock-pit in Drury-lane, 1633, dedicated to Sir Henry Appleton, the plot from Plautus Mostellaria.

The Birth of Merlin, a Tragi-Comedy, 1662.

3. Ladies Tryal, a Tragi-Comedy, acted by both their Majesties Servants, at the Private House in Drury-Lane, printed 4to.

5. Claracilla, a Tragi-comedy, printed in folio, London 1663; written at Rome, and dedicated to his sister in-law lady Shannon; on this play and another of the author's called the Prisoners, Mr. Cartwright has written an ingenious copy of verses.

The Young King; or the Mistake, a Tragi-Comedy, acted at the duke's theatre, and printed in 4to.

The Royal Shepherdess, a Tragi-Comedy; acted by the duke of York's servants, printed at London 1669, in quarto.

3. Siege of Urbin, a Tragi-Comedy. 4.

Selindra, a Tragi-Comedy.

The Indian Queen, a Tragedy. 5. Surprizal, a Tragi-comedy, acted at the theatre royal 1665.

The Rival Ladies, a Tragi-Comedy, acted at the theatre-royal 1679.

Love Triumphant; or Nature will prevail, a Tragi-comedy, acted 1694.

Then she pulled herself together, and prepared to act, for the second time that day, her part in a tragi-comedy in which where there had been two characters there was now but one.

How can you love your neighbor as yourself and not feel a little curiosity as to how he fares, what he wears, where he goes, and how he takes the great life tragi-comedy at which you and he are both more than spectators?

Thus, says Dowries the Prompter, p. 22: "The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was made some time after into a tragi-comedy, by Mr. James Howard, he preserving Romeo and Juliet alive; so that when the tragedy was revived again, 'twas played alternately, tragical one day, and tragi-comical another, for several days together.

Children of darkness; an original tragi-comedy in 3 acts.

Kafka's tragi-comedy.

The present Italian taste for music is exactly correspondent to the taste for tragi-comedy, that about a century ago gained ground upon the stage.

THE RIVAL LADIES, A TRAGI-COMEDY THE RIVAL LADIES.

The audience, 'having ever had a singular gift in defining,' as the author sarcastically remarks, concluded a pastoral tragi-comedy 'to be a play of country hired shepherds in gray cloaks, with curtailed dogs in strings, sometimes laughing together, and sometimes killing one another'; and after all, so far as tragi-comedy is concerned, their belief was not unreasonable.

This plot is a mingling of comedy in the scenes of Laurinda's 'wavering' and the 'humours' of Amyntas' madness, and of tragi-comedy in the catastrophe.

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