Edward Saker's New and Original Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime Entitled Blue Beard
Title | Edward Saker's New and Original Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime Entitled Blue Beard PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas F. Doyle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 1882* |
Genre | Pantomime (Christmas entertainment) |
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Whittington and His Cat
Title | Whittington and His Cat PDF eBook |
Author | T. E. Doyle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 188? |
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Bluebeard
Title | Bluebeard PDF eBook |
Author | Casie E. Hermansson |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2010-03-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1628467622 |
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
Title | Bluebeard PDF eBook |
Author | Casie Hermansson |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1604733535 |
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.
A Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime Entitled Blue Beard, Or, Harlequin and the Farmer's Pet, Etc
Title | A Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime Entitled Blue Beard, Or, Harlequin and the Farmer's Pet, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | Sydney George HORTON |
Publisher | |
Pages | 57 |
Release | 1887 |
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The Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime Entitled, Blue Beard
Title | The Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime Entitled, Blue Beard PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 1869 |
Genre | Bluebeard (Legendary character) |
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Mrs. Edward Saker's First and Original Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, Entitled Jack the Giant Killer
Title | Mrs. Edward Saker's First and Original Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, Entitled Jack the Giant Killer PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas F. Doyle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 45 |
Release | 1883* |
Genre | Pantomime (Christmas entertainment) |
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