tetralogies
- plural of tetralogy.
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“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 Cannan, Gilbert
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
