Is it a comic tragedy or a tragic comedy?

"Helen" is partly a gloss on the play of the same title by Euripides, a fascinating comic tragedy with a dubiously happy ending.

He has also written an historical comic tragedy Tony and Cleo and an epic poem in free verse based upon the books of Maccabees.

Robin Guarino, the stage director, oversees the students of the Mannes Opera in a production of Mozart's classic dark comedy, or comic tragedy (depending, of course, on the staging).

A comic tragedy of frustration, futility, and uselessness.

She complimented Duchovny's analysis of "bigotry from two angles" and his ability to tie the "ongoing X-Files conspiracy arc ... into a comic tragedy like this".

His play "Twilight of the Golds," which opens on Thursday at the Booth Theater on Broadway, is a comic tragedy.

A comic tragedy about murder, betrayal and prophecies.

Ms. Garfield's once-surrealistic sense of humor has become smaller scaled and more inspired by the little comic tragedies of everyday life.

One follows the characters as they navigate their way through comic tragedy, doomed love affairs, and ultimately death.