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  • Things called Tragical _Comedies_ and Comical _Tragedies_, lately advertised by _J.

    Fielding Austin Dobson 1880

  • Steen’s next step was a play with the incendiary title The Tragical History of Audrey Geisel or How the Grinch Plagiarized My Goddamn Children’s Story, a copy of which was emailed to the Geisel estate’s lawyers, accompanied with a drawing by Steen of several Seuss characters enjoying some, um, amok time.

    dustbury.com » Would you, could you, under oath? 2007

  • _Salisbury_) will _own_ himself the AUTHOR of 18 strange Things called Tragical _Comedies_ and Comical

    Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

  • Lieut. General Fielding, who upon his Return from his Travels entered himself of the Temple in order to study the Law, and married one of the pretty Miss Cradocks of Salisbury) will own himself the AUTHOR of 18 strange Things called Tragical

    Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883

  • "The Tragical Historie ..." is the full name of the short, with the purposeful archaic spelling of "Historie," as found in some manuscripts of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

    Titles frankwu 2009

  • Mr. Phillips turns this conceit around: We don't get to the Shakespeare counterfeit, "The Most Excellent and Tragical Historie of Arthur, King of Britain," until the final third of the novel.

    Out of the Miasma of Bardolatry, a Masterpiece Sam Sacks 2011

  • But that's like calling 'The Devil is an Ass' a comedy or 'The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus' a play.

    And it's definitely not SyFy 2009

  • I'm officially changing the title of the full-length Guidolon film we're working on from "The Tragical Historie of Guidolon the Giant Space Chicken" to just "Guidolon the Giant Space Chicken."

    Titles frankwu 2009

  • Shakespeare "plundered" Arthur Brooke's The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1562) for his play of (nearly) the same name.

    David Shields: In Writing, Art, And Music, Everybody Steals David Shields 2010

  • Shakespeare "plundered" Arthur Brooke's The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1562) for his play of (nearly) the same name.

    David Shields: In Writing, Art, And Music, Everybody Steals 2010

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