David Lindsay Abair and Jeanine Tesori’s Shrek the Musical
A postmodernist study
Keywords:
Shrek, the Musical, Musical Theatre, Fairy tales, Postmodernism, Beauty and the BeastAbstract
Postmodernism is an intellectual movement that characterizes by scepticism and fragmentation. Postmodernist writers return to traditional fairytales to question and challenge their norms and meanings. Shrek the Musical is a play based on classic fairytales of Rapunzel and Beauty and the Beast. Shrek the Musical will be studied according to postmodern techniques and strategies. They are many such as deconstruction and intertextuality. This play will be analyzed according to Kevin Paul Smith's method of intertextuality. This method traces the elements of fairytales in postmodernist literature and their unique alterations by using deconstruction theory that shows the false hierarchies and the false values upon which these classic tales are built.
Downloads
References
Abaire, D.L.& Tesori, J.(2008).Shrek the Musical., New Hartford. New York.
Abootalebi, H. (2015)."Postmodern Narrative Techniques in Robert Coover's Collection; Pricksongs and Descants". International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences. 52: 70-75.
Barth, R . (1977).Image-Music-Text. Trans. Stephen Heath. Fontana Press. London.
Bressler, C. E. (2011). Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. Pearson Education, Inc., United States.
Carter, A.(1998). Shaking a Leg. New York., Penguin Books.
Djuraev, A. M., Alpisbaev, K. S., & Tapilov, E. A. (2021). The choice of surgical tactics for the treatment of children with destructive pathological dislocation of the hip after hematogenous osteomyelitis. International Journal of Health & Medical Sciences, 5(1), 15-20. https://doi.org/10.21744/ijhms.v5n1.1813
Goisova, V, B.(2014). Postmodern Features in Monty Python's Flying Circus.Master Thesis. Palackeho V Olomouci University.
Haase, D.(2008). Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairytales. Greenwood Press. London.
Hendricks, G. P. (2016)."Deconstruction the End of Writing: Everything a Text, There is Nothing Outside Context". Verbum et Ecclesia. 37(1): 5-9.
Jordan, G.(2004).Theory Construction in Second Language Acquisition. John Benjamins, North America.
Khan, M. A, Manzoor, F. and Malghani, M. (2021)." Peeping into the Past: Re-visitation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves". Ilko Gretim Online-Elementary Education Online. 20(4).
Khan, M. A. (2017). "Maleficent: Reimaging the Sleeping Beauty with a Postmodern Perspective". International Journal of Advances in Social science:111(80). https://um.nskhr turn :NBN:hr:186:776640
Kristeva, J.(1980).Desire in Language: A semiotic approach to literature and art. Columbia university press. New York.
Lyotard, J. F. (1984)."Answering Question: What is Postmodernism". Tran. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi. The Postmodern Condition: A Report of Knowledge. Mason, F. (2017). Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theatre. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. The United States of America.
Powell, M.A.(2009). Introducing the New Testament A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey. Baker Academic ., United States of America.
Smith, K. P. (2007). The postmodern Fairytale, Folkloric Intertexts in contemporary Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan. New York.
Suryasa, I. W., Rodríguez-Gámez, M., & Koldoris, T. (2022). Post-pandemic health and its sustainability: Educational situation. International Journal of Health Sciences, 6(1), i-v. https://doi.org/10.53730/ijhs.v6n1.5949
Tatar, M. (2016).Beauty and The Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from around the World. New York. Penguin books
WWW.postmodern literature Guide: Notable postmodern Author.
WWW.Shrek the musical. New life Academy.
WWW.The Origins of Rapunzel- Fairy Tales Central.
WWW.Theartical / Shrek: The musical .TV .Tropes.
Zipes, J. (1994).Fairytales as Myth/ Myth as Fairytale. The University Press of Kentucky. The United States of America.
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
Copyright (c) 2022 International journal of health sciences
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Articles published in the International Journal of Health Sciences (IJHS) are available under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Authors retain copyright in their work and grant IJHS right of first publication under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles in this journal, and to use them for any other lawful purpose.
Articles published in IJHS can be copied, communicated and shared in their published form for non-commercial purposes provided full attribution is given to the author and the journal. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
This copyright notice applies to articles published in IJHS volumes 4 onwards. Please read about the copyright notices for previous volumes under Journal History.
