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genre. tragicomedy, dramatic work incorporating both tragic and comic elements. When coined by the Roman dramatist Plautus in the 2nd century bc, the word denoted a play in which gods and men, masters and slaves reverse the roles traditionally assigned to them, gods and heroes acting in comic burlesque and slaves adopting tragic dignity.
Summary. Tragicomedy has been described as the ‘Cinderella’ of early modern genres and certainly watching a tragicomic drama unfold can sometimes feel like a highly uncomfortable combination of fantastic events, high melodrama, impossible outcomes and see-sawing emotions. In trying to pin down what exactly the tragicomic aesthetic is in ...
Juno (film) Juno. (film) Juno is a 2007 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Elliot Page [a] stars as the title character, an independent-minded teenager confronting her unplanned pregnancy and the subsequent events that put pressures of adult life onto her.
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.
Genre categorizes literary works based on specific shared conventions, including style, mood, length, and organizational features. [8] These genres are in turn divided into subgenres . Western literature is typically subdivided into the classic three forms of Ancient Greece, poetry, drama, and prose. Poetry may then be subdivided into the ...
My Girl is a 1991 American coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama film directed by Howard Zieff, written by Laurice Elehwany, and starring Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin, and Anna Chlumsky in her first role in a major motion picture. The film tells the story of an 11-year-old girl living in Madison, Pennsylvania, during the summer ...
TRAGICOMEDY definition: 1. a (type of) play or story that is both sad and funny 2. a (type of) play or story that is both…. Learn more.
