« Un néant follement attifé » : macabre et grotesque dans Mesure pour Mesure by Sophie Chiari

“…Thus, the play presents us with a whole series of frail and disquieting characters, and the medieval theme of the Dance of Death running throughout the tragicomedy reveals the vanity of their speeches and attitudes. …”
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The Hybridity of Popular Culture in The Winter’s Tale by François Laroque

“…In his foreword to The Faithful Shepherdess (1609), John Fletcher blames the crass popular tastes of his theatre audiences for failing to respond properly to the new genre of tragicomedy. Shakespeare was careful to make no such mistake. …”
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Rhetorical Mixture: Hermogenes and Hybridity in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Javiera Lorenzini Raty

“…It argues that Hermogenes was both a key and controversial source of the mixed styles of the period – styles that transgressed the boundaries of poetic decorum and which were embodied in emergent hybrid forms such as tragicomedy or epyllion. Through an examination of work by scholars and poets such as George Puttenham, George Chapman, William Scott, and William Carew, this article demonstrates that Hermogenes both shapes and sheds light on these authors’ main discussions on literary hybridity, informing alternative and radical understandings of poetic form.…”
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Almodóvar’s Baroque Transitions in the Early Films (1980–1995) by Frederic Conrod

“…It is undeniable, however, that there are many Baroque features in his tragicomedy. One of the key aspects that ties Almodóvar’s early films to Baroque art is their exaggerated and melodramatic storytelling. …”
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Le Queenborough d’Ellen Glasgow : cartographie d’une Babylone en devenir by Brigitte Zaugg

“…For her "tragicomedies of manners", The Romantic Comedians (1926), They Stooped to Folly (1929) and The Sheltered Life (1932), Ellen Glasgow chose a common setting, the fictional town of Queenborough. …”
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