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Tragicomedy Information
1,042 words, approx. 4 pages
Tragicomedy refers to fictional works that blend aspects of the genres of tragedy and comedy. In English literature from Shakespeare's time to the nineteenth century, tragicomedy refers to a serious play with a happy...


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
Roll Over, Homer!
6/19/2007: 772 words, approx. 3 pages
Charles Mee’s plays are like literary Frankensteins. He rips apart ancient Greek tragedies, stitches in snippets from blogs, the evening news and Kelly Clarkson songs, then jolts them with his own prose until they’re ready to stagger, or rather dance, on Off Broadway stages. Mr....
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The New York Observer
A Second Act Triumph: Little Edie Happy at Last
11/12/2006: 1,495 words, approx. 5 pages
The new Broadway musical Grey Gardens, directed by Michael Greif, is a tale of two acts. After last season’s successful run at Playwrights Horizons, the show’s creators tried to solve the problem of the expository first act, but what they might have done is drop...
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The New York Observer
A Second Act Triumph: Little Edie Happy at Last
11/12/2006: 1,495 words, approx. 5 pages
The new Broadway musical Grey Gardens, directed by Michael Greif, is a tale of two acts. After last season’s successful run at Playwrights Horizons, the show’s creators tried to solve the problem of the expository first act, but what they might have done is drop...
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The New York Observer
Considering King Lear: Kline Road-Tests Part In Super-Secret Heath
7/2/2006: 1,772 words, approx. 6 pages
was there at the double-super-secret rehearsal. And my reaction was: Do it, Kevin! I would have kept silent if word hadn’t leaked (in Michael Riedel’s piece in the Post of June 23), about the secret rehearsal of King Lear the previous week, with Kevin Kline...
 


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Literary Criticism
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Rosette Lament
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In the following essay, Lamont considers representative plays by Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, and Jack Richardson in order to examine the modern dramatist's comic interpretation of human suffering and death.


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