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en-wikipedia-org-6766		Pentalogy - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1512	180	75	The fivefold structure is usually first encountered by an English-speaking reader in the plays of William Shakespeare, which, like nearly all English, French and German plays of the period, are divided into five acts, even when the narrative of the play hardly seems to demand it; in his Essay on Comedy (1877), George Meredith wrote sardonically that "Five is dignity with a trailing robe; whereas one, or two, or three acts would be short skirts, and degrading." The origin of this tradition was examined by Brander Matthews in A Book about the Theater. The best-known discussion of this shape in English literature is Thomas Browne's essay The Garden of Cyrus, which relies on Pythagorean traditions, but Durrell goes much further afield, relating it to Angkor Wat and the Kundalini.[5] The purpose of the work was to go beyond his previous tetralogy The Alexandria Quartet. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, over the course of nearly 40 years, released five collections of short stories starring Sherlock Holmes, which were originally printed in The Strand Magazine.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6766.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6766.txt