دورية أكاديمية
Two Roads to Hell: Rebirth and Relevance in Musical Adaptations of Katabatic Myth
| العنوان: | Two Roads to Hell: Rebirth and Relevance in Musical Adaptations of Katabatic Myth |
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| المؤلفون: | DePrado, Jarrod |
| المصدر: | Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature |
| بيانات النشر: | SWOSU Digital Commons |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | SWOSU Digital Commons (Southwestern Oklahoma State University) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Adaptation, The Frogs, Hadestown, Greek Mythology, Musical TheatreShevelove, Burt see also Aristophanes. The Frogs—Adaptations, Sondheim, Stephen see also Aristophanes. The Frogs—Adaptations, Lane, Nathan see also Aristophanes. The Frogs—Adaptations, Mitchell, Anaïs see also Hadestown, Myth in fantasy literature, Aristophanes. The Frogs—Adaptations, Dionysus (mythical figure), Musical Theatre, Orpheus and Eurydice (myth), Hades and Persephone (myth), Arts and Humanities, Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory, English Language and Literature, Other Classics |
| الوصف: | The paper examines two myth-inspired musicals—The Frogs by Burt Shevelove and Stephen Sondheim and Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell—concerning journeys to the underworld that benefit society. Both musicals undergo adaptation and revision processes that reflect the political and social concerns of the day. The Frogs depicts Dionysus’ journey to Hades to bring back a poet (originally Euripides, now George Bernard Shaw). However, it was not until the 2004 Broadway adaptation that overtly anti-authoritarian messages were added, aimed at the Bush administration. As a “folk opera,†Hadestown retells Orpheus’ descent to the Underworld to rescue Euridice as a commentary on economic disparity and exploitation: the central couple’s poverty justifies Euridice’s attraction to the industrial productivity of Hell. As a full Broadway musical production, their dilemma is given a counterpoint in the decaying marriage of Hades and Persephone, which reflects ongoing climate change. While the former is a comedy and the latter a tragedy, both musicals arrive at the same message of using art to endorse political change and herald endurance in the face of societal complacency and despair. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| العلاقة: | https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol42/iss2/6Test; https://dc.swosu.edu/context/mythlore/article/3237/viewcontent/article_Deprado.pdfTest |
| الإتاحة: | https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol42/iss2/6Test https://dc.swosu.edu/context/mythlore/article/3237/viewcontent/article_Deprado.pdfTest |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.AC0E8D1 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |