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a mixed dramatic genre that joins serious, potentially tragic action with comic elements and usually a happy ending.

In theatre studies, tragicomedy refers to a mixed dramatic genre that joins serious, potentially tragic action with comic elements and usually a happy ending. This meaning comes from Herrick (1955) in Tragicomedy.[1]

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  1. Herrick, M. T. (1955). Tragicomedy. University of Illinois Press. Open Library record

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