Tetralogue

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.

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.

Collaborative problem-solving has been assessed by tetralogues that have two agents interacting with two humans[…].