NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Tetralogy

A tetralogy is a compound work that is made up of four (numerical prefix tetra-) distinct works. A numerical prefix is a prefix that denotes a number, which is usually a multiplier for the thing being prefixed. ...

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. Attica (in Greek: Î‘Ï„Ï„Î¹ÎºÎ®, Attike; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a periphery (subdivision) in Greece, containing Athens, the capital of Greece. ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed... The Dionysia was a large religious festival in ancient Athens in honour of the god Dionysus, the central event of which was the performance of tragedies and comedies. ... Shakespeare redirects here. ... This article is about the English king. ... Frontispage of the First Quarto Richard The Third. ... Title page of Richard II, from the fifth quarto, published in 1615. ... Title page of the first quarto (1598) Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare. ... Title page of the first quarto (1600) Henry V, also known as The Cronicle History of Henry the fift, is a play by William Shakespeare based on the life of King Henry V of England. ...

The word "tetralogy" is not commonly used in the marketing of collections of works. The term "quadrilogy" has also been used, basing the prefix on Latin Quadri instead of Greek. The musical term "quartet" is also used, as well as "legacy." The Alien and Batman series, each consisting of four films, have been released in collections titled The Alien Legacy and The Batman Legacy. The Alien and Die Hard series have also been released in sets under the title The Alien Quadrilogy and The Die Hard Quadrilogy. Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... A numerical prefix is a prefix that denotes a number, which is usually a multiplier for the thing being prefixed. ... The Alien film series is the group of films that take place in the Alien universe. ... This article is about the 1988 action film. ... The Alien Quadrilogy collection is a nine-disc box set. ...

1 Famous tetralogies
2 See also

Famous tetralogies

Literary works

In literature, the term Tetralogy has also been applied to novels, plays, and poetry, such as: For other uses, see Novel (disambiguation). ... This article is about the art form. ...

Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet
Maggie Furey’s Artefacts of Power
Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun and Book of the Long Sun
Jonathan Bayliss's Gloucesterman
Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter quartet
Terry Brooks's The Heritage of Shannara quartet
Yaşar Kemal's İnce Memed
Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle
Henry de Montherlant's Les Jeunes Filles
Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers
T. H. White's The Once and Future King
Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End
John Updike's Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit at Rest)
Paul Scott's Raj Quartet
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)
Yukio Mishima's The Sea of Fertility
E.E. Smith's Skylark series
Harry Turtledove's Settling Accounts
Tamora Pierce's The Song of the Lioness
Sergei Lukyanenko's Watch series

Lawrence George Durrell (February 27, 1912 â€“ November 7, 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. ... The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. ... Maggie Furey was born in North East England in 1955. ... The Artefacts of Power series is a quartet of fantasy novels written by the British author Maggie Furey. ... Gene Wolfe (born May 7, 1931, New York, New York) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. ... The first two books of The Book of the New Sun, 2000 omnibus printing. ... The Book of the Long Sun is a tetralogy by Gene Wolfe, consisting of Nightside the Long Sun, Lake of the Long Sun, Calde of the Long Sun, and Exodus from the Long Sun. ... Jonathan Bayliss is an American novelist and playwright who lives and writes in Gloucester, Massachusetts. ... This article is about the author Thomas Harris. ... Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character in a series of novels by author Thomas Harris. ... Terence Dean Terry Brooks (born January 8, 1944) is a writer of fantasy fiction. ... The Heritage of Shannara is a series of four fantasy novels by Terry Brooks, set hundreds of years after the original Shannara trilogy. ... YaÅŸar Kemal (born Kemal SadÄ±k GÃ¶kÃ§eli) is one of the best known writers in Turkey. ... The Ä°nce Memed tetralogy is a series of four epic novels written by the Turkish novelist YaÅŸar Kemal. ... Christopher Paolini (born November 17, 1983 in Southern California) is an American writer. ... The Inheritance Cycle, formerly the Inheritance Trilogy, is a series of fantasy novels written by author Christopher Paolini that has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide. ... Henry Millon de Montherlant (Paris, April 20, 1896 â€“ Paris, September 21, 1972) was a French writer of essays and novels, as well as one of the leading French playwrights of the Twentieth Century. ... For other persons named Thomas Mann, see Thomas Mann (disambiguation). ... Joseph and His Brothers is a four part novel by Thomas Mann, published in over the course of 16 years. ... Terence Hanbury White (May 29, 1906 â€“ January 17, 1964) was an English writer, born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. ... The Once and Future King is an Arthurian fantasy novel written by T.H. White. ... Ford Madox Ford (December 17, 1873 - June 26, 1939) was an English novelist and publisher. ... Parades End is a tetralogy (four related novels) by Ford Madox Ford published between 1924 and 1928. ... John Hoyer Updike (born March 18, 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist, poet, short story writer and literary critic. ... Rabbit, Run is a 1960 novel by John Updike, concerning a former basketball player named Harry Rabbit Angstrom, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life. ... Rabbit Redux is the 1971 publication of John Updike. ... Rabbit Is Rich is a novel by John Updike. ... Rabbit At Rest is a novel by John Updike. ... Paul Mark Scott (25 March 1920 â€“ 1 March 1978) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his monumental tetralogy the Raj Quartet. ... The Raj Quartet is a four-volume novel, written by Paul Scott, about the concluding years of the British Raj in India. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Title page of Richard II, from the fifth quarto, published in 1615. ... Title page of the first quarto (1598) The History of Henrie the Fourth, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare. ... Henry IV, Part 2 is a history play by William Shakespeare. ... Title page of the first quarto (1600) Henry V, also known as The Cronicle History of Henry the fift, is a play by William Shakespeare based on the life of King Henry V of England. ... Claude Royet-Journoud (born 1941 in Lyon, France) is a contemporary French poet of the avant-garde. ... Yukio Mishima ) was the public name of Kimitake Hiraoka , January 14, 1925â€“November 25, 1970), a Japanese author and playwright, famous for both his highly notable nihilistic post-war writings and the circumstances of his ritual suicide by seppuku. ... The Sea of Fertility (Japanese: Hojo no Umi) is a series of four novels by Yukio Mishima: Spring Snow (1966) Runaway Horses (1969) The Temple of Dawn (1970) The Decay of the Angel (1971) The series, which Mishima began in 1964, is usually thought of as his masterpiece. ... Grey Lensman in Astounding Oct. ... The Skylark of Space, Amazing Stories, August 1928 The Skylark of Space is one of the earliest novels of interstellar travel. ... Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949) is an American historian and prolific novelist who has written historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction works. ... The Settling Accounts tetralogy is an alternate history setting of World War II by Harry Turtledove in North America, presupposing that the Confederate States of America won the U.S. Civil War. ... Tamora Pierce (born December 13, 1954) is a fantasy author who writes books for young adults. ... It has been suggested that Alanna of Trebond be merged into this article or section. ... Lukyanenko in 2001 Sergey Lukyanenko (Russian: Сергей Лукьяненко) (born April 11, 1968) is a relatively new and young science fiction and fantasy author, writing in Russian (none of his works have as of yet been commercially published in English, partually because Western publishers are apprehensive about the state of modern... For the activist group, see Nochnoy Dozor (advocacy group). ...

Movies

Main article: List of film tetralogies

Tetralogies are film series that have four films in the series. ... The Alien Quadrilogy collection is a nine-disc box set. ... The Austin Powers series is a series of comedy films beginning in 1997 and ending in 2002 that was written and star Mike Myers as the title character, directed by Jay Roach and distributed by New Line Cinema. ... // Main article: Raiders of the Lost Ark Raiders of the Lost Ark, also known as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, is a 1981 adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford. ... Jaws is a 1975 thriller/horror film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on Peter Benchleys best-selling novel inspired by the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916. ... The Karate Kid is a 1984 John G. Avildsen film starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Saw film series is a horror/thriller film franchise created by James Wan and Leigh Whannell, beginning in 2004 and continuing to the present and into the future. ... This article is about the Sylvester Stallone character and films. ... This article is about a series of animated films. ... This article is about a horror parody movie. ...

Music

Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, a series of four epic music dramas.
Coheed and Cambria's The Amory Wars concept albums.
Thrice's The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II and The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV

Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 â€“ 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or music dramas as they were later called). ... Der Ring des Nibelungen, (The Ring of the Nibelung), is a cycle of four epic music dramas by the German composer Richard Wagner. ... Music drama is the term ascribed to the revolutionary medium of artistic expression created by the German composer Richard Wagner. ... Coheed and Cambria is an American progressive rock[1][2] band formed in Nyack, New York. ... The Amory Wars, originally called the Bag. ... Look up thrice in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Alchemy Index is Thrices fifth studio recording, a four-disc concept album that will be split between two releases, the first in October 2007 and the second in April 2008. ... This article is about the second two discs of The Alchemy Index. ...

Video games

Grand Theft Auto (although, in theory, the series has more than four games, albeit only four 'numbered' games)
Metal Gear Solid (series)
Monkey Island
Devil May Cry (series)

Grand Theft Auto redirects here. ... One of many logos; used in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and the sequel to it. ... Monkey Island may refer to the following: Monkey Island series, a series of computer adventure games The Secret of Monkey Island, the original Monkey Island 2: LeChucks Revenge, the second part The Curse of Monkey Island, the third part Escape from Monkey Island, the fourth part Monkey Island (island... The series takes its name from a shop owned by Dante, the main character Devil May Cry is a series of video games set in the modern day, developed by Capcom and created by Shinji Mikami. ...

Historical works

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill.

A series of four novels is also called a quartet. A contemporary cover of History of the English Speaking Peoples. ... Churchill redirects here. ... For other uses, see Quartet (disambiguation). ...

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. Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ... Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott, is an extremely popular and influential science fiction/horror film that spawned several sequels and imitators. ... The Alien Quadrilogy collection is a nine-disc box set. ... This article is about the 1988 action film. ...

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