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tragicomedy

genre of drama and literature
Intangible literary_genre Q192881
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Summary

tragicomedy is a literary genre[1]. tragicomedy ranks in the top 6% of literary genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,848 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: theatrical genre[3]
  • Subclass of: comedy[4], tragedy[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Tragicomedy[6]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[9], Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[10]
  • Different from: tragedy[11], comedy[12], comedy drama[13]

Why It Matters

tragicomedy has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] tragicomedy is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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  8. [10] ↑ . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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