The Princess Bride
by Signum University
This course material is only available in the iTunes U app on iPhone or iPad.
Course Description
The Mythgard Academy takes on another icon of the modern fantasy world as we discuss William Goldman’s The Princess Bride. Goldman insists, of course, that he has merely put together an “abridgement” of the national epic of Florin (that thriving European nation rich with history and tradition which you can easily find right across the channel from Guilder), which was penned by its (incontestably) most widely heralded author, S. Morgenstern. In this class, we will look at this fun and complex blend of comical story and satirical commentary, as well as spending time discussing the even more famous film version of the story.
As part of the Mythgard Academy series, the class is tuition-free and open to the public. The first 100 participants for each session are able to participate in the discussion live, and both video and audio recordings of the classes will be available on this web page, through the Mythgard podcast feed and on our iTunes U course.
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| 1 | The Movie, Part 2 | -- | 2:42:44 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Movie, Part 2 | -- | 2:42:44 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | The Movie, Part 1 | -- | 2:04:12 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Movie, Part 1 | -- | 2:04:11 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | What This Book Says | -- | 2:06:19 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What This Book Says | -- | 2:06:18 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | What This Book Says | -- | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
| 8 | The True Heroes | -- | 1:57:58 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The True Heroes | -- | 1:57:58 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 10 | The True Heroes | -- | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | True Love | -- | 1:56:44 | Free | View in iTunes |
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True Love | -- | 1:56:44 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | True Love | -- | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
| 14 | Goldman and Morgenstern | -- | 2:00:01 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Goldman and Morgenstern | -- | 2:00:01 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 16 | Goldman and Morgenstern | -- | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
| 17 | The Princess Bride | Return to a time when men were men and swamps were swamps. Fire swamps, that is. Full of quicksand and Rodents of Unusual Size. Lagoons were inhabited by shrieking eels. And the most beautiful woman in the world was named…Buttercup? Well, it's a bent fairy tale. Complete with all the fencing, fighting, chases, escapes, and silly accents you'd expect. Plus one of two things only Rob Reiner (director of "Misery", "When Harry Met Sally...") could dream up. Like Inigo Montoya, who has dreamt his whole life of finding the six finger man who killed his father. Blonde Buttercup loves Westley, a poor stable boy. But when he's captured by pirates, she's chosen by evil Prince Humperdinck to be his princess bride. Along the way, she gets kidnapped, he gets killed. But it all ends up okay. | 1:38:30 | $14.99 | View in iTunes |
| 18 | The Princess Bride | William Goldman's modern fantasy classic is a simple, exceptional story about quests—for riches, revenge, power, and, of course, true love—that's thrilling and timeless. Anyone who lived through the 1980s may find it impossible—inconceivable, even—to equate The Princess Bride with anything other than the sweet, celluloid romance of Westley and Buttercup, but the film is only a fraction of the ingenious storytelling you'll find in these pages. Rich in character and satire, the novel is set in 1941 and framed cleverly as an “abridged” retelling of a centuries-old tale set in the fabled country of Florin that's home to “Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passions.” | -- | $8.99 | View in iTunes |
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