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Tag Archives: adaptation
Review of Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales
My mother told me that you should never go to bed angry. The reviewer’s equivalent of this is you should never go to a show already inclined against it. However, the issue that gave me the Angry Reds regarding Philip … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged adaptation, Fairy tales, Grimm brothers, Philip Pullman, theatre
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Michael Dirda reviews five fairy-tale books
A review of new books on the fairy tale by Marina Warner and Jack Zipes (including the first translation into English of the first edition of Grimm’s Tales), but also of two books from Princeton University Press’s Oddly Modern Fairy … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, Reading Lists, Reviews
Tagged adaptation, Fairy tales, Grimm brothers, Jack Zipes, Marina Warner, Wolves
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wonder.land – a new musical
This sounds exciting! Another response to the 150th anniversary of Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandL Damon Albarn’s new musical, wonder.land.
William Gray, ‘Go into the woods – at your peril’
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged adaptation, Fairy tales, Grimm brothers, Stephen Sondheim
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Alison Nastasi, ‘Beautiful Illustrations That Reimagine the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales’
And they are beautiful–visual interpretations by David Hockney, Edward Gorey, and others of the Grimm Brothers’ tales. In celebration of older brother Jacob Grimm’s birthday this week, we’re looking at beautifully illustrated retellings of the Grimms’ fairy tales by artists … Continue reading
Posted in Resources
Tagged adaptation, Edward Gorey, Grimm brothers, illustration, Neil Gaiman
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Rowan Williams: why we need fairy tales now more than ever
Rowan Williams reviews Marina Warner’s new book, Jack Zipes’s translation of the Grimms, and Malcolm Lyons’s translation of early Arabic wonder tales, and discusses the power of the fairy tale in a fascinating essay-review.
Louis Peitzman, ‘Behind The Changes That Brought “Into The Woods” From Stage To Screen’
An interview with Into the Woods screenwriter James Lapine on the new adaptation for cinema of Stephen Sondheim’s brilliant revisioning of classic Grimms’ fairy tales.
Posted in Interviews
Tagged adaptation, cinema, Fairy tales, Grimm brothers, Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim
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Review of Mark Bruce’s ‘Dracula’
At the end of November, I treated myself and a friend to a performance of Mark Bruce’s Dracula. It is a sign of the how good the reviews had been that I was willing to trek from South-West London to North-East London to … Continue reading
Greg Buzwell, ‘Bram Stoker’s stage adaptation of Dracula’
Another useful article from the BL’s excellent series. This might be useful for OGOM MA researchers as well as those concerned with the transmutation of the vampire through various media: To coincide with the British Library’s current major exhibition, Terror … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, Critical thoughts, Resources
Tagged adaptation, Bram Stoker, Dracula, theatre, Vampires, Victorian Gothic
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Marina Warner, ‘How fairytales grew up’
More from the always-insightful Marina Warner on the fairy tale and its transformations and adaptations. Here, the essay revolves around Disney’s Frozen to encompass the many variations, dilutions, and intensifications of the original folk motifs through the ages.