...However, in the Address to the Reader he excused what he had done by calling it 'pastoral tragi-comedy': A tragi-comedy is not so called in respect of mirth...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, with such...

...Ravenscrofc, The Wrangling Lovers; Maidwell, The Loving Enemies. '"A tragi-comedy ... is so called ... in respect it wants deaths, which is enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some near it, which is enough to make it no comedy" ("To the Reader," The Faithful Shepherdess). 'Neander, in...

...modo seguente: 7 Opera pastorale sul genere del Postar Fido di Guarirli e di Egle di Giraldi Cinzie. «A tragicomedy is not so called in respect of mirth...enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some near it, which is enough to make it no comedy» 8. The Tempest compare per la prima volta nell'in-folio...

...Shepherd, and Fletcher summarized some of Guarini's genre theories in the preface to the published edition: A tragicomedy is not so called in respect of mirth...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, with such...

...reception when first performed) Fletcher offers this definition - and justification - of the genre: A tragi-comedy is not so called in respect of mirth...enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some near it, which is enough to make it no comedy.'6 John Lyly, using a more colourful, more disarming, idiom...

...used the term to describe his 'pastorall Tragiecomedie', The Faithful Shepherdess: 'A tragie-comedie is not so called in respect of mirth and killing, but in respect it wants deaths, which is inough to make it no tragedie, yet brings some neer it, which is inough to make it no comedie' (Bowers,...

...definition gives us only a limited sense of what he himself meant by "tragicomedy": A tragie-comedie is not so called in respect of mirth and killing, but in respect it wants deaths, which is inough to make it no tragedie, yet brings some neere it, which is inough to make it no comedie; which...

...certainly helps us recalibrate any generic expectations derived from John Fletcher's bloodless definition: "A tragi-comedy is not so called in respect of mirth...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, with such...

...genre picks up the classical definition of depicting both "familiar people" and the gods, adding that "tragicomedy is not so called in respect of mirth...enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some near it, which is enough to make it no comedy." 36 In staging two real deaths, The Winter's Tale perhaps...

...a dignified definition of tragi-comedy in describing his own play The Faithful Shepherdhess (1610): [it] wants deaths, which is enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some near it, which is enough to make it no comedy. Even this simple definition, however, dependent only on its...