Tragedy and Dionysian Comedy

Part of Birth of Tragedy is also an analysis of the death of Tragedy, and how the work of Wagner can be classified as a rebirth of Tragedy.  Accordingly, the introduction, in The Gay Science, of Zarathustra as "the tragedy begins" suggests that Thus Spoke Zarathustra is another 'rebirth of Tragedy'.  However, it can also be classified as a novel theatrical type.  For, in Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche equates the death of Tragedy with the birth of Comedy, as exemplified by the works of Euripides, to which he attributes the "Greek cheerfulness" that suppresses the Tragic origins of Greek culture.  Now, in Gay Science #1, he alludes to not only Tragedy, but also to Comedy, though not of the superficial Euripidean variety.  Rather, this variety might be characterized as Dionysian Comedy, since it consists in the provoking of Dionysian laughter at the human all too human seriousness of Individuality.  Likewise, such laughter becomes a prominent feature in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, thus suggesting the rubric for it of 'Dionysian Comedy', and a birth of a new sensibility.