| 单词 | tragi-comi-farcical |
| 释义 | > as lemmastragi-comi-farcical Forming adjectives with the sense ‘both tragicomic and ——’, ‘tragic, comic, and ——’, as tragi-comi-farcical, tragi-comi-operatical, tragi-comi-pastoral, etc. Chiefly in titles of plays.In later use only with reference or allusion to 18th-century plays with tragi-comi- in their titles. ΚΠ 1715 J. Gay What d'ye call It (subtitle) A tragi-comi-pastoral farce. 1729 E. Hawker Country-wedding sig. A2 (subtitle) A tragi-comi-pastoral-farcical opera. 1731 W. R. Chetwood Generous Free-mason (title page) A tragi-comi-farcical ballad opera. 1737 R. Drury Rival Milliners (title page) A tragi-comi-operatic-pastoral farce. 1742 Politicks in Miniature (title page) A tragi-comi-pantomimical performance of two acts. ?1750 ‘Merry Andrew’ Don Quixote in Miniature (title page) A tragi-comi-pastoral farce, of one act only. 1771 J. Reed Register-office (new ed.) ii. 38 I have written..no less than nine Tragedies, eight Comedies,..and one Tragi-comi-operatico-magico-farcico-pastoral, dramatic Romance. c1778 R. Porson in Daily Chron. 29 Mar. (1902) 6/7 Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire..[a] tragi-comi-operatical farce. 1792 J. Raithby Delineations of Heart I. (title page) A tragi-comi-satiric essay. 1800 R. Bisset Douglas IV. vi. 162 It was necessary to give some account of the tragi-comi-operati-farcical hodge-podges of the present day. 1993 C. Winton John Gay & London Theatre p. xi The mock-learned preface with its straight-faced analysis of what goes into making a tragi-comi-pastoral farce. < as lemmas |
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