Dramatic poetry might include comedy, tragedy, melodrama, and mixtures like tragicomedy. The mode of most "absurdist" plays is tragicomedy. The Grotesque is often linked with satire and tragicomedy. These precursors include Elizabethan tragicomedy, formal experimentation, pataphysics, surrealism, Dadaism, and most importantly existentialism. In 1712, playwright Charles Johnson published his highly romanticized tragicomedy "The Successful Pyrate". His mastery is most notable in two dramatic types, tragicomedy and comedy of manners. "Cul-de-sac" (1966) is a bleak nihilist tragicomedy filmed on location in Northumberland. It is a subgenre of contemporary tragicomedy. The 1648, 1660, and 1682 editions were no longer subtitled "tragicomedy", but "tragedy". It is considered the first modern masterpiece in the genre of tragicomedy. It was presented as an interlude with his tragicomedy, "Belisario". The novel is comparable to a tragicomedy. Generally, the film is a dark and quirky "tragicomedy". In 2018, he began appearing as Gene Cousineau on the HBO tragicomedy "Barry". Essentially, this play is a tragicomedy.