sophoclean, seriocomic, farcical, absurdist, melodramatic, mordant, grand guignol, overdetermined, novelistic, picaresque, poignant, pantomimic, satiric, bathetic, mawkish, unaffecting, droll, comical, banal, allegorical, revelatory, surrealistic, lugubrious, wry, slapstick, mirthless, jean giraudoux, parodic, dostoevskian, vaudevillian, artless, heartrending, melancholy, tragi, hilarious, literalized, poetic, seriocomedy, metaphoric, uproarious, semiautobiographical, postmodern, pythonesque, riveting, shakespearean, fin de siecle, quotidian, grotesque, sardonic, macabre, tragic, melancholic, shavian, overfamiliar, sordid, satirical, dostoyevskian, swiftian, rueful, kafkaesque, comedic, antic, hackneyed, splenetic, opera buffa, acter, tragical, existential, piteous, hitchcockian, elegiac, dramaturgical, magic realist, mythic, humorous, plangent, sorrowful, unrelieved, beguiling, maudlin, max beerbohm, schmaltzy, scabrous, anomic, essayistic, coup de foudre, autobiographical, fairy tale, phantasmagoric, engrossing, semiotic, jean anouilh, archetypal, marc blitzstein, leaden, oneiric, eugene ionesco, objective correlative, hallucinatory, larky, treacly, piquant, comic, surreal, bizarre, carnivalesque, chekhovian, grimmer, ludicrous, epic, undramatic

humourous, sad, tragicomical