William Gray, ‘Go into the woods – at your peril’

Posted on 16th January 2015 by William the Bloody

The Disney film of Stephen Sondheim’s darkly witty musical Into the Woods, with its ingenious interweaving of classic tales from the Grimms, is to be released soon. Here, Professor William Gray of the University of Chichester, Director of the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy explores the implications of the subversion of the ‘traditional’ fairytale happy ending.

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Cat lover. 18C scholar on the dialogue and novel. Co-convenor OGOM Project
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