List of literary cycles

The Anansi tales, which center on the Ashanti of Ghana trickster spider-spirit Anansi, and its variations in the Americas as Ti Malice and Bouki in Haiti, Br'er Rabbit or John and Old Master in the Southern US.
The Matter of Britain (or the "Arthurian cycle"), which centers on King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
The Matter of France (or the "Carolingian cycle"), which centers on Charlemagne and the Twelve Peers
The Matter of Rome (or the "cycle of Rome"), which centers on Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great
The Reynard cycle, which centers on the fabular fox Reynard
The Epic Cycle, which centers on the Trojan War
The Mythological Cycle, which centers on the Celtic pantheon
The Fenian Cycle, which centers on Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna
The Ulster Cycle, which centers on Cú Chulainn and the Kingdom of Ulster
The Cycle of the Kings, which centers on the monarchy of Ireland
Der Ring des Nibelungen (or the "Ring cycle"), which centers on the Ring and the Norse pantheon
The four troubadours Bernart d'Auriac, Pere Salvatge, Roger Bernard III of Foix, and Peter III of Aragon composed a cycle of four sirventes in the summer of 1285 concerning the Aragonese Crusade.
The Henriad, the four plays of Shakespeare centered on Henry V.
The Japanese literary concept of sekai (世界, lit. "world") bears strong similarities to that of a cycle. Those surrounding Minamoto no Yoshitsune and the Soga brothers are likely the most popularly reproduced.

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