单词 | serio-comedy |
释义 | serio-comedyn. A serio-comic work or performance. As a mass noun: the style or genre associated with this. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a comedy > other types of comedy Old Comedy1529 New Comedy1542 comedy of errors?1595 romantic comedy1748 musical comedy1765 comédie larmoyante1773 sketch1789 serio-comedy1808 vaudeville1827 teacup-and-saucer comedy1842 satyr play1845 Restoration comedy1866 zarzuela1888 situation comedy1893 sex comedy1915 sitcom1956 1808 J. P. Malcolm Anecd. Manners & Customs London 105 Thus ended the serio-comedy of Fanny the Phantom, which afforded fine sport for the wits of the day. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Apr. 4/1 The libretto of ‘The Canterbury Pilgrims’ is no ordinary work;..its story is..told tunefully and gaily, as befits a serio-comedy. 1891 M. Williams Later Leaves xix. 226 Nothing will ever come near him in The Roused Lion, which..was serio-comedy. 1929 E. Blunden Nat. in Eng. Lit. v. 125 From this serio-comedy of the strawyard the [farmer's] boy raises his face to the setting Sun and..gets to bed. 1936 H. A. L. Fisher Hist. Europe ii. xviii. 634 The fashionable ladies who played so active a part in this serio-comedy. 1953 K. Amis Let. 15 Apr. (2000) 314 Here as promised..is the final typescript of my novel Lucky Jim. As you'll see, serio-comedy is the formula really. 2004 Time Out 25 Aug. 155/3 Current National Theatre director Hytner labours long and hard to make something out of this upscale New York serio-comedy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1808 |
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