Crossword-Solution: TRAGICOMEDIES 13 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

Tchekoff’s delicate and elusive descriptive power did not lend itself to painting on a large canvas, and his strange little tragicomedies of Russian life, his “Tedious Tales,” as he called them, were always to remain his masterpieces.

She was more fortunate than Consuelo in not being compelled to sing to a public of Prussian corporals." Indeed, the picture of Frederic's opera-audience, with the pit full of his tall grenadiers with their wives on their shoulders, never daring to applaud except when he gave the order, as if by tap of drum, opposed to the tender and expansive nature of the artist, is one of the best tragicomedies extant.

Unfluttered he; calm as the sky Looks on our tragicomedies, This way and that he lets him fly, A sunbeam-shuttle, then to die Lands him with cool _aplomb_, at ease.

From the first quarto of _Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding_, published in 1620, we learn that this, the earliest of their great tragicomedies, was acted not by the Queen's Revels' Children, but by the King's Players, and at the Globe.

The heroes of these, and of his tragicomedies and romantic dramas, such as _A Wife for a Month_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Island Princesse_, may be fearless and blameless, but their courage and virtue are of habit rather than of moral exigency.