...and that they adhere to the formula for tragicomedy which Fletcher described thus: 'a tragi-comedy is not so called in respect of mirth and killing, but in respect it wants deaths, which is enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some near it, which is enough to make it...

...Fletcher said, wasn't so called because it mixed "mirth and killing" — Shakespeare's hybrids do that — "but in respect it wants death, which is enough to...some near it, which is enough to make it no comedy." You could have your cake and eat it. An odd couple, one a trifler touched with genius, the other a...

...Measure, Shakespeare accomplishes John Fletcher's definition of tragicomedy, that "it wants deaths, which is enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings...some near it, which is enough to make it no comedy." Critics debate over the "central problem" of this problem play, but the groaning Julietta's rapidly...

...Faithful Shepherdess (first performed c. 1608), John Fletcher defined the genre as 'wantfing] deaths, which is enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings...some near it, which is enough to make it no comedy, which must be a representation of familiar people ... A god is as lawful in [tragicomedy] as in a tragedy,...

...'tragicomedy' in the preface to The Faithful Shepherdess, John Fletcher proposes that 'A tragic-comedy is not so called in respect of mirth and killing, but in respect it wants deaths, which is enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some near it, which is enough to make it...