tetralogy

Picture an opera made entirely of a mad scene, and you have “Foreign Experiences,” an installment in “Now Eleanor’s Idea,” Ashley’s tetralogy whose construction recalls another four-work saga, Wagner’s “Ring.”

From New York Times ● May 10, 2024

It follows HBO’s lauded and ongoing “My Brilliant Friend,” based on Ferrante’s “Neapolitan” tetralogy, and three books turned into theatrical features, including last year’s “The Lost Daughter,” directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2023

This one was a tetralogy: The Filipino champion and his Mexican rival met four times over eight years.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

Scurati’s rendering of the turbulent years from 1919 to 1925, the first volume in a projected tetralogy, is translated by Anne Milano Appel.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2022

For the development of the great tetralogy, this is the most important scene of all, and, as such, it will probably meet with the necessary sympathy and attention.

From Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2 by Francis Hueffer

“Richard II” is also our introduction to the Henriad, two tetralogies that trace the path of the English throne from one Richard, through two Henrys, to a final Richard.

From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2020

This blunts the company’s substantial ambition; the current alternating repertory is typical of an expansive approach that will be massively amplified next season with the eight plays of Shakespeare’s “War of the Roses” tetralogies.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2018

The second and more widely known of Shakespeare’s two history tetralogies, the cycle charts the tumult that roils the British kingdom under three successive rulers.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2016

There were great projects, vast and impossible, tetralogies, decalogies, pretending to depict everything in music, covering whole worlds.

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Gilbert Cannan

Fifteen of Antiphon’s speeches are extant: twelve are mere school exercises on fictitious cases, divided into tetralogies, each consisting of two speeches for prosecution and defence—accusation, defence, reply, counter-reply; three refer to actual legal processes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various