comi-tragedy

But while it may be Kapoor's vision that we credit for being at the creative helm, the performances featured in this production of Hamlet are what drive the concept of this comi-tragedy home.

E. Nina Rothe: Reinventing The Bard: Rajat Kapoor's Hamlet -- The Clown Prince Tours the UK E. Nina Rothe 2011

But while it may be Kapoor's vision that we credit for being at the creative helm, the performances featured in this production of Hamlet are what drive the concept of this comi-tragedy home.

E. Nina Rothe: Reinventing The Bard: Rajat Kapoor's Hamlet -- The Clown Prince Tours the UK E. Nina Rothe 2011

This was obvious in the rich comi-tragedy of Mr. Biswas; also in his one purely English novel, Mr. Stone and the Knight's Companion, in which he made a careful study of the "little man" and pushed forward the tradition of Pooter, Polly, and the Napoleon of Notting Hill into regions that were more exposed and dangerous, without falling into pastiche or charm.

Crack-Up Pritchett, V.S. 1968

I know no better method of illustrating it, than quoting, from Mr. Sheppard's excellent book, _The Fall of Rome and the Rise of New Nationalities_, a passage in which he transfers the whole comi-tragedy from Italy of old to England in 1861.

Roman and the Teuton Charles Kingsley 1847

Johnson birdied and from there it descended into comi-tragedy.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

Northerner could have come so close to the heart of a Kentucky feud, and revealed it so perfectly, with the whimsicality playing through its carnage, or could have so brought us into the presence of the sardonic comi-tragedy of the squalid little river town where the store-keeping magnate shoots down his drunken tormentor in the arms of the drunkard's daughter, and then cows with bitter mockery the mob that comes to lynch him. "

Mark Twain Archibald Henderson 1920

No Northerner could have come so close to the heart of a Kentucky feud, and revealed it so perfectly, with the whimsicality playing through its carnage, or could have so brought us into the presence of the sardonic comi-tragedy of the squalid little river town where the store-keeping magnate shoots down his drunken tormentor in the arms of the drunkard's daughter, and then cows with bitter mockery the mob that comes to lynch him.”

Mark Twain Henderson, Archibald 1910