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(2015) From fairy tale to film screenplay, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The Robber Bridegroom is one of the most memorable stories in the entire collection of the Brothers Grimm. It is a tale in which a young woman must resist the advances of someone who is intent on killing and eating her. Unlike the 31-function fairy tale, the 29-function structure of The Robber Bridegroom does not end with a marriage but concludes more simply with the survival of the Reluctant Bride and the Punishment by execution of the Robber Bridegroom and his Godless Crew. This 29-function plot structure was entirely overlooked by Propp, even though it follows from his groundbreaking work.
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Murphy, T. (2015). The robber bridegroom genotype, in From fairy tale to film screenplay, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 31-45.
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