Title: Tragicomedy
Content:  Criticism that developed after the Renaissance stressed the thematic and formal aspects of tragicomedy, rather than plot. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing defined it as a mixture of emotions in which "seriousness stimulates laughter, and pain pleasure." Tragicomedy's affinity with satire and "dark" comedy have suggested a tragicomic impulse in modern theatre with Luigi Pirandello who influenced many playwrights including Samuel Beckett and Tom Stoppard. Also it can be seen in absurdist drama. Friedrich Dürrenmatt, the Swiss dramatist, suggested that tragicomedy was the inevitable genre for the twentieth century; he describes his play The Visit (1956) as a tragicomedy. Tragicomedy is a common genre in post-World War II British theatre, with authors as varied as Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard, John Arden, Alan Ayckbourn and Harold Pinter writing in this genre. Vladimir Nabokov's postmodern fiction Pale Fire is a tragicomedy preoccupied with Elizabethan drama
Title: Theatre of the Grotesque
Content:  Luigi Pirandello, an Italian playwright and author, was a prolific contributor to Theatre of the Grotesque. Pirandello worked during the early-mid 1900s in Italy finding the most success through his plays. His development of the concept of umorismo, concerning laughter in the face of tragedy and pain, was one of the key theoretical informants of Theatre of the Grotesque. Much of his work, especially his plays, rebelled against and criticised the dominance of naturalistic drama in Italy, thus adhering to the conventions of Theatre of the Grotesque. His play Six Characters in Search of an Author, written in 1921, has become one of the most celebrated and mass-produced Theatre of the Grotesque pieces.
Title: Tragicomedy
Content:  Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms. Most often seen in dramatic literature, the term can describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending. Tragicomedy, as its name implies, invokes the intended response of both the tragedy and the comedy in the audience, the former being a genre based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis and the latter being a genre intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter.
Title: The Room (play)
Content:  The Room is Harold Pinter's first play, written and first produced in 1957. Considered by critics the earliest example of Pinter's "comedy of menace", this play has strong similarities to Pinter's second play, The Birthday Party, including features considered hallmarks of Pinter's early work and of the so-called Pinteresque: dialogue that is comically familiar and yet disturbingly unfamiliar, simultaneously or alternatingly both mundane and frightening; subtle yet contradictory and ambiguous characterizations; a comic yet menacing mood characteristic of mid-twentieth-century English tragicomedy; a plot featuring reversals and surprises that can be both funny and emotionally moving; and an unconventional ending that leaves at least some questions unresolved.
Title: Theatre of the Grotesque
Content:  Written in 1918 by Italian playwright Enrico Cavacchioli, The Bird of Paradise is a Theatre of the Grotesque play which is credited with completing the emergence phase of the style. The Bird of Paradise is commonly considered the most important of Cavacchioli's plays and questions the accepted moral order though introducing an abstract symbolic character named Him, who holds the other characters to trial. This play cemented the presence of Theatre of the Grotesque as a genre, dealing with the themes of anguish and distress, as well as the split between life and art, though comedy and Grotesque conventions.
Title: Comedy of menace
Content:  reissued again with a new cover after Pinter won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature.) ; Wardle, Irving. "The Birthday Party".  Encore 5 (July&ndash;Aug. 1958): 39&ndash;40.  Rpt. in The Encore Reader: A Chronicle of the New Drama.  Ed. Charles Marowitz, Tom Milne, and Owen Hale.  London: Methuen, 1965.  76–78.  (Reissued as: New Theatre Voices of the Fifties and Sixties.  London: Eyre Methuen, 1981.) ; –––. "Comedy of Menace".  Encore 5 (Sept. – Oct. 1958): 28–33.  Rpt. in The Encore Reader and New Theatre Voices 86–91. ; –––. "There's Music in That Room".  Encore 7 (July–Aug. 1960): 32–34.  Rpt. in The Encore Reader and New Theatre Voices 129–32. 
Title: Harold Pinter
Content:  career. In a review published in 1958, borrowing from the subtitle of The Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace, a play by David Campton, critic Irving Wardle called Pinter's early plays "comedy of menace"—a label that people have applied repeatedly to his work. Such plays begin with an apparently innocent situation that becomes both threatening and "absurd" as Pinter's characters behave in ways often perceived as inexplicable by his audiences and one another. Pinter acknowledges the influence of Samuel Beckett, particularly on his early work; they became friends, sending each other drafts of their works in progress for comments. Pinter wrote The Hothouse in 1958, which 
Title: The Pitchfork Disney
Content:  their tummy, and then savagely, fucked them up the arse… Performed right at the beginning of 1990, this was one of the first plays to signal a new direction for new writing. No politics, no naturalism, no journalism, no issues. In its place, character, imagination, wit, sexuality, skin and the soul.” Critic and leading expert on In-yer-face theatre, Aleks Sierz, has cited the play as a pioneering work. In his introduction to the Methuen Classics edition of the play-text, Sierz wrote “The Pitchfork Disney is not only a key play of the 90s; it is the key play of that decade... Its legend grew and grew until it became the pivotal influence on 
Title: Comedy of menace
Content:  sense of the ridiculous that balance heartache and laughter. Funny, but not too funny. As Pinter wrote, back in 1960: 'As far as I am concerned The Caretaker IS funny, up to a point. Beyond that point, it ceases to be funny, and it is because of that point that I wrote it.' (Jones)" "Beyond the point" of the comedy (the "funny") lies the scary territory that threatens one's very existence (Billington 92), which Wardle and others commonly have "labeled" or "pigeonholed" (depending on one's perspective) as "menace" (Merritt 9–10).  Though "comedy of menace" is generally applied to Pinter's early work of 
Title: Theatre of the Grotesque
Content:  Six Characters in Search of an Author is a play written by Luigi Pirandello in 1921 as a reaction against the prevalence of naturalistic drama in Italian theatre. Initially conceived as a novel, it is a metatheatrical play that explores the relationship between authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners that premiered in Rome in 1921 to mixed reviews. Pirandello used this play as a means to examine the infinite absurdities of life, writing in a famous monologue by the Father that "Life is full of grotesque". Following the initial outrage, Six Characters... has been produced to critical acclaim and popular success, transferring to Broadway in 1922 and being adapted into an opera in 1959 and several films, the most notable of which was release in 1964. This play is one of the most celebrated Theatre of the Grotesque plays written in the initial upsurge of the style and was key to its expansion beyond Italy.

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