Example sentences for: tragedy-within-a-comedy

How can you use “tragedy-within-a-comedy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Its boudoir is an entire forest, symbolizing Nature itself, where mortals and fairies, regals and bumpkins, make love and war, where passion becomes arbitrary and paramours interchangeable; and its last act is a riotously bungled tragedy-within-a-comedy (a celebratory performance by a troupe of "rude mechanicals") that's an ironic comment on the trivial pursuits that have preceded it.


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