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Line 56: * Pierre Corneille's ''Le Cid'' got the author into trouble with Cardinal Richelieu, who wasn't just a fictional [[Big Bad]]. Apparently mixing tragedy with farce was considered a bad thing in the 1700s, and the argument between the two even got its own cool sounding name, ''La Querelle du Cid''. * ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'': A similar example to ''La Querelle du Cid'', ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'' is a play which mixes [[Tragedy]] with Farce with great success, and it even presents Cardinal Richelieu... as [[The Ghost]]. It's characterized by [[Comedy of Errors\|misunderstandings]], [[Gambit Pileup\|deceptions]], and in general very contrived and ridiculous situations ([[Playing Cyrano]], for instance), or the Gascon Cadets stumbling upon [[Ho Yay\|Cyrano and Christian when they're in a situation that appears compromising]] and a [[Fetch Quest]]... [[Tragedy\|in the middle of the death of the protagonist]]. * [[William Shakespeare\|Shakespeare]] loved this trope for his comedies, with ''[[AThe Comedy of Errors]]'' probably being the most overblown one of all. * ''[[Our American Cousin]]'', which people in the 21st century have heard of only because of what happened during its most famous performance. == [[Web Comics]] ==