The classical modes of stage drama, defined by outcome and tone rather than subject: comedy's resolution toward reconciliation, tragedy's descent toward catastrophe, tragicomedy's deliberate mixture of the two, and drama as the general stage genre encompassing both. Belongs here: a genre whose defining convention is performance for the stage and one of these classical outcome patterns. Does not belong here: a prose narrative genre that merely borrows dramatic structure, such as the picaresque novel.