TETRALOGY
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:''For the congenital heart condition, see Tetralogy of Fallot''
A 'tetralogy' is a compound work that is made up of four (numerical prefix '') distinct works.
The name comes from the Attic theater, where tetralogies were meant to be played in one sitting at the Dionysia. In more recent times, Shakespeare wrote two tetralogies, the first consisting of the three ''Henry VI'' plays and ''Richard III'', and the second consisting of ''Richard II'', the two ''Henry IV'' plays, and ''Henry V''. Richard Wagner's "Der Ring der Nibelungen" - the 'Ring Cycle' - is also referred to as a tetralogy.
In literature, the term has also been applied to novels, plays, and poetry, such as:
★ Lawrence Durrell's ''Alexandria Quartet''
★ Ford Madox Ford's ''Parade's End''
★ Henry de Montherlant's ''Les Jeunes Filles''
★ Yukio Mishima's ''The Sea of Fertility''
★ Harry Turtledove's ''Settling Accounts''
★ Thomas Mann's ''Joseph and His Brothers''
★ Paul Scott's ''Raj Quartet''
★ YaÅŸar Kemal's ''Ä°nce Memed''
★ Jonathan Bayliss's ''Gloucesterman''
★ Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter quartet
★ Terry Brooks's The Heritage of Shannara quartet
★ T. H. White's ''The Once and Future King''
★ Gene Wolfe's ''Book of the New Sun'' and ''Book of the Long Sun''
★ William Shakespeare's sequence of history plays: ''Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V''
★ Claude Royet-Journoud's ''Le Renversement'', ''La Notion d'Obstacle'', ''Les Objects contiennent l'infini'', and ''Les Natures indivisibles'' (poetry published between 1972 and 1997)
★ John Updike's ''Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit at Rest)
Main articles: List of movie tetralogies
★ Alien Quadrilogy
★ Shrek (4th planned 2010)
★ Indiana Jones (4th planned 2008)
★ Saw (film series)
★ Lethal Weapon
★ Die Hard
★ Jaws
★ Rambo (4th planned 2008)
★ Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, a series of four epic music dramas.
★ Coheed and Cambria's The Amory Wars concept albums
★ Grand Theft Auto
★ Quest for Glory (Was originally planned as a tetralogy, but Wages of War was inserted.)
★ Metal Gear Solid (series)
★ Monkey Island
★ ''A History of the English-Speaking Peoples'' by Winston Churchill.
A series of four novels is also called a quartet.
The 20th Century Fox marketing team coined the synonym "quadrilogy" for the release of their Alien DVD box set ''The Alien Quadrilogy''. This uses the Latin numerical prefix quadri-/quadr- instead of the usual Greek tetra-.
★ Sequel
★ Duology
★ Trilogy
★ Pentalogy
★ Heptalogy
A 'tetralogy' is a compound work that is made up of four (numerical prefix '') distinct works.
The name comes from the Attic theater, where tetralogies were meant to be played in one sitting at the Dionysia. In more recent times, Shakespeare wrote two tetralogies, the first consisting of the three ''Henry VI'' plays and ''Richard III'', and the second consisting of ''Richard II'', the two ''Henry IV'' plays, and ''Henry V''. Richard Wagner's "Der Ring der Nibelungen" - the 'Ring Cycle' - is also referred to as a tetralogy.
| Contents |
| Famous tetralogies |
| Literary works |
| Movies |
| Music |
| Video games |
| Historical works |
| See also |
Famous tetralogies
Literary works
In literature, the term has also been applied to novels, plays, and poetry, such as:
★ Lawrence Durrell's ''Alexandria Quartet''
★ Ford Madox Ford's ''Parade's End''
★ Henry de Montherlant's ''Les Jeunes Filles''
★ Yukio Mishima's ''The Sea of Fertility''
★ Harry Turtledove's ''Settling Accounts''
★ Thomas Mann's ''Joseph and His Brothers''
★ Paul Scott's ''Raj Quartet''
★ YaÅŸar Kemal's ''Ä°nce Memed''
★ Jonathan Bayliss's ''Gloucesterman''
★ Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter quartet
★ Terry Brooks's The Heritage of Shannara quartet
★ T. H. White's ''The Once and Future King''
★ Gene Wolfe's ''Book of the New Sun'' and ''Book of the Long Sun''
★ William Shakespeare's sequence of history plays: ''Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V''
★ Claude Royet-Journoud's ''Le Renversement'', ''La Notion d'Obstacle'', ''Les Objects contiennent l'infini'', and ''Les Natures indivisibles'' (poetry published between 1972 and 1997)
★ John Updike's ''Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit at Rest)
Movies
Main articles: List of movie tetralogies
★ Alien Quadrilogy
★ Shrek (4th planned 2010)
★ Indiana Jones (4th planned 2008)
★ Saw (film series)
★ Lethal Weapon
★ Die Hard
★ Jaws
★ Rambo (4th planned 2008)
Music
★ Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, a series of four epic music dramas.
★ Coheed and Cambria's The Amory Wars concept albums
Video games
★ Grand Theft Auto
★ Quest for Glory (Was originally planned as a tetralogy, but Wages of War was inserted.)
★ Metal Gear Solid (series)
★ Monkey Island
Historical works
★ ''A History of the English-Speaking Peoples'' by Winston Churchill.
A series of four novels is also called a quartet.
The 20th Century Fox marketing team coined the synonym "quadrilogy" for the release of their Alien DVD box set ''The Alien Quadrilogy''. This uses the Latin numerical prefix quadri-/quadr- instead of the usual Greek tetra-.
See also
★ Sequel
★ Duology
★ Trilogy
★ Pentalogy
★ Heptalogy
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