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There's a very thin dividing line between tragedy and comedy. Many of shakespeare's comedies could be tragedies, and vice versa, with only the minimum of rewriting.Incidentally, I once saw a version of Macbeth played as a comedy. Same plot, but hilarious. (It was an end-of-term student production, so you can imagine...) Not much shakespeare survived, however.
Posted by Thersites on April 09, 1997 at 01:33:50
In Reply to "why potential tragedy in comedy?" posted by ck on April 08, 1997 at 05:57:28
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