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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 tetra-) 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.
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In literature, the term Tetralogy 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
- Yaşar Kemal's İnce Memed
- Jonathan Bayliss's Gloucesterman
- Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter quartet
- Maggie Furey’s Artefacts of Power
- 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
- Tamora Pierce's The Song of the Lioness
- 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)
- Alien Quadrilogy
- Indiana Jones (4th planned 2008)
- Lethal Weapon
- Die Hard
- Jaws
- Rambo (4th planned 2008)
- Terminator (4th planned 2009)
- The Karate Kid
- Saw
- Austin Powers
- 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 series of four novels is also called a quartet.
The 20th Century Fox marketing team coined the nonstandard synonym "quadrilogy" for the release of their Alien DVD box set The Alien Quadrilogy and the Die Hard DVD box set The Die Hard Quadrilogy. This uses the Latin numerical prefix quadri-/quadr-, instead of the usual Greek tetra-, with the Greek -logy.
