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Examples of tetralogy
tetralogy
This was the case with the sketches for the first three parts of the tetralogy.
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It is this magnificent tetralogy of novels that I now regard as Mann's finest work.
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Has cinema ever seen a more tedious tetralogy than Pirates of the Caribbean?
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Enough loose ends still hang at the close to suggest a possible tetralogy.
From the independent.co.uk
Nevertheless, Wagner always referred to the Ring as a trilogy rather than a tetralogy.
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Yukio Mishima completed his tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, one November morning in 1970.
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When a trilogy turns into a tetralogy, it is because the grudge remains.
From the latimes.com
The film is the first in a tetralogy directed by Romero and spawned four unofficial sequels.
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In 2001, Tom Markus directed an adaptation of the tetralogy at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.
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- A series of four related works (plays or operas or novels)
- A tetralogy is a compound work that is made up of four (numerical prefix '''') distinct works, just as a trilogy is made up of three works.
- (1) In a general sense, a collection of four narratives that are contiguous and continuous in chronology. Just as three books that tell a continuous story constitute a trilogy, four books that tell a continuous narrative are a tetralogy. ...
- Greek tetra = four, and logos = discourse, hence a combination of four elements e.g., symptoms or defects.
- Used to describe a common heart defect with four components (Fallot's Tetralogy).
- Group of four plays presented by a tragic playwright at the City Dionysia, composed of three tragedies and a satyr play. ...
- A grouping of four plays by theme and content; in the ancient Greek theater the tetralogy customarily comprised three tragedies (a trilogy) and a satyr play. ...
- Four works constituting a group. Thus, Shakespeare's CHRONICLE PLAYS Richard II, Henry IV, Parts I and II, and Henry V constitute a tetralogy. Greek drama was presented in tetralogies, consisting of three tragedies followed by a SATYR PLAY. ...
