tetralogue

Noun

tetralogue (plural tetralogues)

1. A discourse or colloquy involving four individuals.
   • There exists a strange tetralogue entitled: “A study of the first scene of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.” In it Brecht tried to record his preliminary discussions with his assistants.1966, Günter Grass, “The Prehistory and Posthistory of the Tragedy of Coriolanus from Livy and Plutarch via Shakespeare down to Brecht and Myself”, in Ralph Manheim, transl., The Plebeians Rehearse...
   • It sets the scene for the second layer of the work, the ‘tetralogue’ or four-sided dialogue between Smitho, a serious and enquiring English gentleman, Prudenzio, a classicist pedant, Frulla, a rude servant, and Teofilo, the narrator.1991, John Bossy, “Dialogues, and a Small Riot”, in Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, part I (A Dog in the Night-time), page 39

   Synonyms:

   quadrilogue