Touché : the duel in literature / by Leigh, John, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Paradoxes of the duel. A tragicomedy;…”

Shakespeare : a writer's progress / by Edwards, Philip, 1923-

Table of Contents: “…A career in theatre -- Relationship -- Poems and poetry -- Comedy -- History -- Tragedy -- Tragicomedy.…”

The homoerotics of early modern drama / by DiGangi, Mario

Table of Contents: “…The homoerotics of masculinity in tragicomedy.…”
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The homoerotics of early modern drama / by DiGangi, Mario

Table of Contents: “…The homoerotics of masculinity in tragicomedy.…”
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The sad comedy of Èlʹdar Riazanov : an introduction to Russia's most popular filmaker / by MacFadyen, David, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…""Contents""; ""Prologue""; ""Tragicomedy""; ""1 Psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union""; ""Ideology""; ""2 Ideology versus Diffidence, Not Dissidence""; ""3 Ideology Faces the Horrors of Its Opposite""; ""Sadness""; ""4 The Difficult Birth of Tragicomedy""; ""5 Can Materialism Be Challenged by Melancholy?""…”
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Shakespeare and religion / by Shell, Alison

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Antitheatricalism in Shakespeare's age -- Shakespeare's life and works : Catholic critiques -- Good works : Shakespeare's use of religious moralism -- Providence, fate and predestination : from tragedy to tragicomedy -- Conclusion.…”

Shakespeare and religion / by Shell, Alison

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Antitheatricalism in Shakespeare's age -- Shakespeare's life and works : Catholic critiques -- Good works : Shakespeare's use of religious moralism -- Providence, fate and predestination : from tragedy to tragicomedy -- Conclusion.…”
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The American stage and the Great Depression : a cultural history of the grotesque / by Fearnow, Mark, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…The grotesque and the Great Depression -- The political analogy : or, "tragicomedy" in an in-between age -- Misery burlesqued : the peculiar case of Tobacco road -- Chaos and cruelty in the theatrical space : Horse eats hat, Hellzapoppin, and the pleasure of farce.…”

Nietzsche's The gay science : an introduction / by Ure, Michael, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Nietzsche's tragicomedy -- Nietzsche's new nobility: book one -- Redeeming art: book two -- Shadows of God: book three -- Sanctus Januarius: book four -- Eternal recurrence: personal infinity -- Dionysian pessimism: book five -- Nietzsche's Saturnalia: 1886 preface.…”
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Billy and Girl : a novel / by Levy, Deborah

The expense of spirit : love and sexuality in English Renaissance drama / by Rose, Mary Beth

Table of Contents: “…Transforming sexuality : Jacobean tragicomedy and the reconfiguration of private life.…”
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Rethinking Shakespeare's political philosophy : from Lear to Leviathan / by Schulman, Alex

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- I: Shakespearean antiquity -- The birth of tragicomedy (In the defeat of Hector by Ulysses) -- Pagan Christs: Politics in the Roman plays -- II: Shakespearean modernity -- "King Lear" and the state of nature -- Shakespeare's "Novus Ordo Seclorum": Freedom and authority in the English Histories -- Shakespeare and the Theological-Political Problem.…”
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Tragicomic redemptions : global economics and the early modern English stage / by Forman, Valerie

Table of Contents: “…Stasis and insularity in The merchant of Venice and Twelfth night -- The voyage out: Pericles -- Poverty, surplus value, and theatrical investment in The winter's tale -- Captivity and "free" trade: Fletcher's The island princess and English commerce in the East Indies in the early 1600s -- Balance, circulation, and equity in the "prosperous voyage" of The renegado -- Webster's The devil's law-case, the limits of tragicomic redemption, and tragicomedy's afterlife.…”
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The crane's walk : Plato, pluralism, and the inconstancy of truth / by Barris, Jeremy

Table of Contents: “…Internal and external connections -- Artificiality and nature (sometimes being is something else) -- Knowledge as intervention : difficulties and solutions -- A philosophical rhetoric -- Knowledge as intervention : advantages -- The variegated texture of truth -- The artificiality of rigorous thought and the artificial dimensions of reality -- The risk of rigorous thought -- Mixture and purity -- What Plato is about : an overview -- Charmides : lust, love, and the problem of knowledge -- Republic : justice, knowledge, and the problem of love -- Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman : the tragicomedy of knowledge, reality, and responsible conduct -- The unevenly even consistency of truth.…”

The Expense of Spirit : Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama. by Rose, Mary Beth

Table of Contents: “…The Expense of Spirit; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Moral Conceptions of Sexual Love in Elizabethan Comedy; 2 Sexual Disguise and Social Mobility in Jacobean City Comedy; 3 A Waste of Shame: The Heroics of Marriage in English Renaissance Tragedy; 4 Transforming Sexuality: Jacobean Tragicomedy and the Reconfiguration of Private Life; Index.…”
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The comic spirit of Federico García Lorca / by Higginbotham, Virginia, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Lyric Poetry -- 2. Tragicomedies and Farces -- 3. Avant-Garde Prose and Plays -- 4. …”
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Rhetoric and Power : the drama of classical Greece / by Crick, Nathan

Table of Contents: “…Homer's Iliad and the epic tradition of heroic eloquence -- Heraclitus and the revelation of logos -- Aeschylus's Persians and the birth of tragedy -- Protagoras and the promise of politics -- Gorgias's Helen and the powers of action and fabrication -- Thucydides and the political history of power -- Aristophanes's Birds and the corrective of comedy -- Plato's Protagoras and the art of tragicomedy -- Isocrates's "Nicocles" and the hymn to hegemony -- Aristotle on rhetoric and civilization.…”
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Graham Greene : fictions, faith and authorship / by Brennan, Michael G.

Table of Contents: “…The writer in search of a career: 1923-1929 -- The man of letters: 1930-1935 -- The making of a literary reputation: 1936-1938 -- Missionary zeal and the established writer: 1939-1943 -- The certainty of doubt: 1944-1954 -- The writer in search of new directions: 1955-1965 -- The disguise of tragicomedy: 1966-1973 -- The self-reflective writer: 1974-1991.…”
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The Cambridge companion to English Renaissance drama /

Table of Contents: “…Braunmuller -- Drama and society / Michael Hattaway -- Private and occasional drama / Martin Butler -- Political drama / Margot Heinemann -- Romance and the heroic play / Brian Gibbons -- Pastiche, burlesque, tragicomedy / Lee Bliss -- Comedy / Jill Levenson -- Tragedy / Robert N. …”

Thomas Middleton, Renaissance dramatist / by O'Callaghan, Michelle

Table of Contents: “…Life -- City comedies : Mad world, My masters, Michaelmas term and A trick to catch the old one -- Authorship, collaboration and the London theatre : Middleton and Dekker, The roaring girl -- Tragicomedy and the city : Chaste maid in Cheapside and No wit, no help like a woman's -- The playwright as craftsman : Middleton's civic pageants -- Plotting revenge : The revenger's tragedy, Women beware women and The lady's tragedy -- Partners in tragedy : Middleton and Rowley, The changeling -- Politics and theatre : A game at chess.…”