Kabuki Kyogen is classified according to its drama content into some categories, such as "Jidaimono," which dramatizes the historical facts, and "Sewamono," which portrays the social conditions at the time, and Sewamono is equivalent to today's TV dramas of commercial broadcasting.
演劇的な内容としては、歴史的事実を演劇化した時代物、その当時の世相を描写した（現在なら民放のテレビドラマに相当する）世話物などに分けられる。