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Webster 1913 Edition


Trilogy

Tril′o-gy

,
Noun.
[Gr.
τριλογία
; pref.
τρι-
(see
Tri-
) +
λόγοσ
speech, discourse: cf. F.
trilogie
.]
A series of three dramas which, although each of them is in one sense complete, have a close mutual relation, and form one historical and poetical picture. Shakespeare’s “ Henry VI.” is an example.
On the Greek stage, a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a
trilogy
, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.
Coleridge.