tragifarce
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Etymology edit
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tragifarce (countable and uncountable, plural tragifarces)
- A dramatic work that combines elements of tragedy and farce.
- 1988 May 6, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Social Criticism”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- The latter is, according to its director, "a tragic phantasmagoria, a grotesque tragicomedy, or perhaps a lyrical tragifarce," as well as a political allegory, and only has a few moments of percussive pop music (along with quotes from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Shakespeare's 66th sonnet).