A experimental literary work--either a play or prose piece of fiction--containing elements common to both comedies and tragedies. The genre is marked by characters of both high and low degree, even th [..]

A literary work that contains elements of both comedy and tragedy.

A literary work which combines elements of both tragedy and comedy. Tragicomic plays were quite common during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods of English literature.

A form of drama that originated in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, combining the forms and conventions of tragedy and comedy, usually by including characters of both high and low social position and [..]

(n) a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating(n) a comedy with serious elements or overtones

Ah, the tragicomedy. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll eat a whole bag of popcorn. Tragicomedy is a mixed genre that blends tragic and comic conventions. We see it most in drama, but it [..]