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 The last type of tragedy commonly known is the tragedy that incorporates comedic relief. They are commonly known as “tragicomedies.” While the events in tragicomedies are often considered with tragic and humorous, their main purpose is to revel a major problem for the character(s), but a happy ending is achieved due to unknown circumstances typically at a time of panic.  The greatest examples that display the qualities of a tragicomedy is Shakespeare’s ''The Merchant of Venice'' and John Fletcher’s ''The Faithful Shepherdess''. <ref>Lethbridge, Stefanie, and Jarmila Mildorf. "Tragicomedy." <i>Types of Tragedy</i>. N.p., Mar. 2004. Web. <http://www2.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/intranet/englishbasics/DramaSubgenres02.htm></ref>
-== American Tragedies ==
-[[File:Title_page_for_The_Scarlet_Letter.jpg|thumb|Title page for The Scarlet Letter.]]
-During the late 19th century in the United States, two authors will be one of the many to start the new tragic genre of American Tragedies. In 1850 and 1851, both Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville created the embodiment of the tragic form just when America was booming with optimism and vying for materialistic possessions. Their novels <i>[[The Scarlet Letter]]</i> and <i>[[Moby Dick]]</i> will be the first of many that will succeed in this genre. The trend continued on into the 20th century and paid close attention to the pathos of the victims. Although they were sometimes insignificant, they were still engulfed by the unmatching force of the significant being who ends up destroying the victim in the process. Only the novels of William Faulkner, in their depth and powerful assault on basic tragic themes, give memorization of traditional tragic values long forgotten in his "Saga of the South."<ref>Sewall, Richard B. "The American Tragic Novel." <i>Tragedy</i>. N.p., 20 Mar. 2014. Web. <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/601884/tragedy/51125/The-American-tragic-novel></ref>
 == British Tragedies ==