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Rehearse :: Rehearse (v. t.) To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy..

Chorus :: Chorus (n.) A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus..

Sock :: Sock (n.) The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin..

Comic :: Comic (a.) Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy..

Cothurnated :: Cothurnated (a.) Relating to tragedy; solemn; grave.

Catastrophe :: Catastrophe (n.) The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy..

Tragi-comi-pastoral :: Tragi-comi-pastoral (a.) Partaking of the nature of, or combining, tragedy, comedy, and pastoral poetry..

Satyrical :: Satyrical (a.) Of or pertaining to satyrs; burlesque; as, satyric tragedy..

Play :: Play (n.) The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as, he attends ever play..

Buskined :: Buskined (a.) Trodden by buskins; pertaining to tragedy.

Melpomene :: Melpomene (n.) The Muse of tragedy.

Tragedy :: Tragedy (n.) A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence..

Tragic :: Tragic (n.) A tragedy; a tragic drama.

Cothurn :: Cothurn (n.) A buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general..

Tragedienne :: Tragedienne (n.) A woman who plays in tragedy.

Play :: Play (n.) A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in which characters are represented by dialogue and action.

Tragi-comedy :: Tragi-comedy (n.) A kind of drama representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy.

Stasis :: Stasimon (n.) In the Greek tragedy, a song of the chorus, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics..

Tragical :: Tragical (a.) Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation..

Comedy :: Comedy (n.) A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy; -- opposed to tragedy..

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