comedy

Summary

comedy is a literary genre^[1]. comedy ranks in the top 1% of literary_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,765 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• comedy's instance of is recorded as literary genre^[3].
• comedy's instance of is recorded as field of work^[4].
• comedy is a type of work of art^[5].
• comedy is a type of humor^[6].
• comedy's Commons category is recorded as Comedy^[7].
• comedy's said to be the same as is recorded as comedy^[8].
• comedy's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Comedy^[9].
• comedy's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Comedy plays^[10].
• comedy's main subject is humour^[11].
• comedy's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Comedy^[12].
• comedy's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon^[13].
• comedy's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[14].
• comedy's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[15].
• comedy's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia^[16].
• comedy's described by source is recorded as Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste^[17].
• comedy's described by source is recorded as Wiktionary^[18].
• comedy's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[19].
• comedy's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana^[20].
• comedy's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition^[21].
• comedy's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5^[22].
• comedy's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[23].
• comedy's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary^[24].
• comedy's equivalent class is recorded as http://lemac.sgcb.mcu.es/Autoridades/LEMAC201207612/concept^[25].
• comedy's different from is recorded as comedy^[26].
• comedy's different from is recorded as tragicomedy^[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include literary genre^[3] and field of work^[4]. Recorded subclass of include work of art^[5] and humor^[6].

Influence

Things named for comedy include Zagreb City Theater Komedija^[28], a theatre building^[29], in Croatia^[30], founded in 1950^[31].

Why It Matters

comedy ranks in the top 1% of literary_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,765 views/month).^[2] comedy has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[32] comedy is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[33]

Entities named for comedy include Zagreb City Theater Komedija^[28], a theatre building^[29], in Croatia^[30], founded in 1950^[31].