dramatic genre
Stage play classification
A dramatic genre is a category for classifying plays, films, or other performed works according to their tone, structure, and subject matter.
The major dramatic genres—tragedy, comedy, melodrama, farce—each carry conventions that shape audience expectations: The play belongs to a dramatic genre that emerged in ancient Greece.
Genre boundaries blur in practice, producing hybrids like tragicomedy.
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- morality playDrama teaching ethical lessons
- realismAccepting things as they are
- absurdismPhilosophy embracing existence's irrationality
- kabukiRitualistic performance for show
drawing room comedy · expressionism · musical theater · naturalism · symbolism · puppet theater · physical theater · bunraku · opera · pantomime · immersive theater · street theater · Beijing opera · tragicomedy · noh theater · allegory · romance · Greek tragedy
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poetry · novel · epic poetry · lyric poetry · documentary
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