tragicomedy

genre of drama and literature
Intangible literary_genre Q192881
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tragicomedy

Summary

tragicomedy is a literary genre[1]. tragicomedy ranks in the top 6% of literary_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,450 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • tragicomedy's instance of is recorded as literary genre[3].
  • tragicomedy's instance of is recorded as theatrical genre[4].
  • tragicomedy is a type of comedy[5].
  • tragicomedy is a type of tragedy[6].
  • tragicomedy's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Tragicomedy[7].
  • tragicomedy's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • tragicomedy's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • tragicomedy's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10].
  • tragicomedy's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[11].
  • tragicomedy's different from is recorded as tragedy[12].
  • tragicomedy's different from is recorded as comedy[13].
  • tragicomedy's different from is recorded as comedy[14].
  • tragicomedy's different from is recorded as comedy drama[15].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include literary genre[3] and theatrical genre[4]. Recorded subclass of include comedy[5] and tragedy[6].

Why It Matters

tragicomedy ranks in the top 6% of literary_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,450 views/month).[2] tragicomedy has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] tragicomedy is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
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  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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