Looking for characters and stories that are retold and reinterpreted many times throughout history. Not talking about reproductions (like a new production of a Shakespeare play) but actual retellings. Is there a name of something like this?
Examples I can think of
>King Arthur
>Faust
>Don Juan
Any more?
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a bunch of greek myths have been dramatized over and over by different playwrights
Pygmalion is a topos that reoccurs in literature, music, theater and films for centuries. Same with Robinson Crusoe and Robin Hood.
I might add, could be interesting for you to check out the Aarne–Thompson classification.
Don't Quixote, sort of. Every era seems to have their own literary take on the delusional picaresque hero.
Superman, Spiderman, Batman, Ironman etc.
king fisher, but is Arthur related
Copyright law unironically ruined storytelling.
Also: Frankenstein, Dracula and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (the first two more than the third). These don't technically fit the bill though because the retellings are often seen as more of adaptions than actual retellings
hm, an easy one would be the wandering jew. roland. hm
The underground man
The original Dosto, Kafka’s story “
The burrow”, Kobo Abe’s The ark sakura, etc.
Pierrot
Charlie Brown
Sherlock Holmes
WHAT IS hm!?
Faust
hm is me hemming and hawing over this question. it is a good one to which i would do the honor of bending my mind to answer thoughtfully.
this, also i would say the superfluous man would be a better name to cast him as. oblomov down to ignatius c reilly
Saramago did that sort of thing with Bible characters and with Ricardo Reis, one of Pessoa's heteronyms.
What about the character who's in way over their heads and doesn't really know what's going on?
>Oedipa Maas
>Rosecrans & Guildenstern
>The Dude from Big Lebowski
I'm trying to think of one from the classical period and the closest I can come up with is maybe Odysseus? This seems to be a much more recent one historically speaking
Don Quioxte
No he did
How the hell did no one mention Campbell's The Hero With A Thousand Faces yet? Read it, it will provide you everything you need. And the name for that kind of study is comparative mythology.
Not the same thing, sorry
Matter of Greece
Matter of Rome
Matter of France
Matter of Britain
How is that not the same? Recurring characters and stories is precisely what that book and comparative mythology focus on.
Don't take its reputation as a guide for narrative structure seriously — that is a cross-discipline interpretation of the material — the book itself legitimately entirely about what you're asking for in the OP.
Comparative mythology is about the repetition of tropes and thinly sketched narrative structures across culture. This thread is about actual retellings of specific stories and specific characters across time.
Is this really worth reading? I read ~30% of it but put it down because I got bored of it
Yes u stipid
read the Theme of the Traitor and the Hero by Borges. It’s short, and exactly what you’re looking for
Sounds like what you really want is manuscript transmission and oral tradition, then. Most of the material on those subjects are fairly academic, so not particularly easy reading if that's what you're after.
It's not that either, christ, can you read?
The Chinese do this quite a nit with 'Journey to the West'. Dont know anything about it beyond that.
Chicken Run
A Christmas Carol
Robin Hood
Adam and Eve
The Three Musketeers
Literally everyone Shakespeare wrote about
Chris-chan
>Noah and the Arch
Stuff about Troy.
Don Jon
Faust
>Don Jon
>Faust
both in the op...
So? Am I wrong?
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