Both of these texts also have the same basic plot line. This is where negative characters are trying to force marriage upon a character(which being Buttercup(Princess Bride) and Princess Fiona(Shrek)). Both of these characters find true love with the positive characters and the negative characters get jealous and try to ruin it for both of them. This shows a strong relationship between the two texts.
Secondly, there is the relationship between the two texts created in Goldman’s novel. This is between ‘S.Morgenstern’s, Classic Tale of True love and high adventure’ and ‘W.Goldman’s, The Good Parts Version Abridged’. “Morgenstern wasn’t writing any children’s book, he was writing a kind of satiric history of his country and the decline of the monarchy in western civilisation.”(W.Goldman, The Princess Bride, 1973, Pg. 29). In the text there is a disparity of historical events and dates don’t match up. This quotes shows evidence of that Goldman’s father did only tell him certain parts of the (made up) original. This is why when Goldman creates the good parts version the before and after dates don’t match up. Also, “But my father only read me the action stuff, the good parts. He never bothered with the serious stuff and all.”(pg. 29). This just further shows the relationship between the two different stories that are going on in the novel. It also gives a fairy tale aspect that the S.Morgenstern story wasn’t true.
Lastly, is the relationship between, how the story is in the prologue is presented as a non-fictional novel with the unrealities of the setting. Such as the tree with a magical knob, that leads into a secret torture room, a fire swamp (swamp that randomly shoots out fire) and the Cliffs of Insanity. All of these settings have a fairy tale or magical feeling or sound about them. Obviously these settings don’t exist in a non-fictional novel as it would have been presented by Goldman.
In conclusion, William Goldman’s, The Princes Bride has several intertextual references with in the text.
