Author: Mary Sabilla NovelloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The history of Bluebeard's six wives
Author: Mary Sabilla NovelloBluebeard's Widow and Her Sister Anne. Their History Evolved from Mendacious Chronicles
Author: Sabilla NovelloThe Seven Wives of Bluebeard & Other Marvellous Tales
Author: Anatole FrancePublisher: London : J. Lane
ISBN:
Category : Tales
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Secrets Beyond the Door
Author: Maria TatarPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691127832
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Maria Tatar analyses the many forms the tale of Bluebeard's wife has taken over time, showing how artists have taken the Bluebeard theme and revived it with their own signature twists.
Bluebeard
Author: Casie E. HermanssonPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1628467622
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales of all time. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. Astonishingly, this fairy tale was a nursery room staple, one of the tales translated into English from Charles Perrault's French Mother Goose Tales. Bluebeard: A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition is the first major study of the tale and its many variants (some, like “Mr. Fox,” native to England and America) in English: from the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, through the twentieth century in music, literature, art, film, and theater. Chronicling the story's permutations, the book presents examples of English true-crime figures, male and female, called Bluebeards, from King Henry VIII to present-day examples. Bluebeard explores rare chapbooks and their illustrations and the English transformation of Bluebeard into a scimitar-wielding Turkish tyrant in a massively influential melodramatic spectacle in 1798. Following the killer's trail over the years, Casie E. Hermansson looks at the impact of nineteenth-century translations into English of the German fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and the particularly English story of how Bluebeard came to be known as a pirate. This book will provide readers and scholars an invaluable and thorough grasp on the many strands of this tale over centuries of telling.
Bluebeard
Author: Casie HermanssonPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604733535
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. This is a major study of the tale and its many variants in English: from the 18th and 19th century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, to the 20th century in music, literature, art, film, and theatre.
Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times
Author: Shuli BarzilaiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136096663
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This project provides an in-depth study of narratives about Bluebeard and his wives, or narratives with identifiable Bluebeard motifs, and the intertextual and extratextual personal, political, literary, and sociocultural factors that have made the tale a particularly fertile ground for an author’s adaptation of the story. Whereas Charles Dickens, for example, expresses a sympathetic identification with Bluebeard, and a discernable strain of misogyny emerges in his recreation of the tale and recurrent allusions to it, his contemporary, William Makepeace Thackeray, uses the tale as a springboard for his critique of avarice, hypocrisy, pretension, and the subjugation of women in Victorian society.
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Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Ariane & Bluebeard
Author: Matthew BrownPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253063191
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Maurice Maeterlinck described his libretto Ariane et Barbe-bleue as "a sort of legendary opera, or fairy [opera], in three acts." In 1907, Paul Dukas finished setting Maeterlinck's libretto to music, and the opera's Paris premiere was lauded as a landmark in operatic history. Ariane & Bluebeard: From Fairy Tale to Comic Book Opera offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at this historic opera, including its structure, reception, and cultural implications. This lively collection juxtaposes chapters from experts in music, literature, the visual arts, gender studies, and religion and philosophy with vibrant illustrations by comic artist P. Craig Russell and interviews with performers and artists. Featuring material from newly discovered documents and the first English translation of several important sources, Ariane & Bluebeard allows readers to imagine the operain its various incarnations: as symbolist show, comic book, children's fairy tale, and more.
Bluebeard's First Wife
Author: Seong-nan HaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781948830171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Ha looks closely at the sordid underbelly of suburbia in Bluebeard's First Wife, the latest from one of Korea's preeminent authors.