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What is a Shakespearean tragicomedy? Shakespeare never explicitly regarded his own plays as tragicomedies. However, modern scholars consider many of his "problem plays"--plays that historically fit neither in the genre of comedy nor the genre of tragedy--to be tragicomedies. Shakespeare's tragi...
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They often begin from the point of familiarity for the audience, such as Estragon and Vladimir's evocation of the classic vaudevillian double-act in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot or the use of the preestablished Shakespearean characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's ...