sentences:  In this respect, a number of Greek and Roman plays, for instance "Alcestis", may be called tragicomedies, though without any definite attributes outside of plot.The word itself originates with the Roman comic playwright Plautus, who coined the term somewhat facetiously in the prologue to his play "Amphitryon".The character Mercury, sensing the indecorum of the inclusion of both kings and gods alongside servants in a comedy, declares that the play had better be a "tragicomoedia"