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Full-Text Poems How Rudeness and Kindness Were Justly Rewarded
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The story of Diamonds and Toads and its themes have appeared in literature and other forms of art. This page provides a small discussion of some of the better known treatments by authors and other artists. Literature Poetry Music Film Theatre
Levine, Gail Carson. The Fairy's Mistake. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. NOVEL: In The Fairy's Mistake, two very different sisters have two very different encounters with the fairy Ethelinda. Rosella is kind and helpful. Her reward: Jewels and gems tumble out of her mouth whenever she speaks. Myrtle is rude and spiteful. Her punishment: Bugs and vipers slither out of her mouth. The fairy Ethelinda feels she's meted out justice just right--until she discovers Rosella has been locked up by a greedy prince and Myrtle is having the time of her life! Literature:
Short Stories
Cadnum, Michael. "Toad-Rich." Silver Birch, Blood Moon. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds. New York: Avon, 1999. SHORT STORY
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki. "How I Came to Marry a Herpetologist." Twice Upon A Time. Denise Little, ed. New York: DAW Books, 1999. SHORT STORY
Hopkinson, Nalo. "Precious." Silver Birch, Blood Moon. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds. New York: Avon, 1999. SHORT STORY
Sherman, Delia. "The Months of Manhattan." A Wolf at the Door. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. SHORT STORY: Based on "The Twelve Months" tale which is closely related to Diamonds and Toads. Carryl, Guy Wetmore. "How Rudeness and Kindness Were Justly Rewarded." Grimm Tales Made Gay. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1902. Read the poem on this site at How Rudeness and Kindness Were Justly Rewarded.
Gaiman, Neil. "Instructions."A Wolf at the Door. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. SHORT STORY
Hay, Sara Henderson. "The Flaw." Story Hour. Fayetteville, AS: University of Arkansas Press, 1998. I have listed primarily classical compositions of music using the themes of this fairy tale in either ballet, opera or some other musical style. I have also provided links to popular recordings of the music when available at Amazon.com. The advantage to these links is that you can listen to samples of the music at no charge. None so far!
To learn more
about these films, please visit the Frau Holle (1954). Fritz Genschow, director. West Germany. USA Title: Mother Holly. Cast: Frau Holle (1961). Peter Podehl, director. West Germany. USA Title: Mother Holly. Cast: "Lucie Englisch is a very nice Frau Holle to whom the controlling of the weather can be entrusted, in this nice and smart adaptation of the fairy tale. Also nicely designed and especially the world of Frau Holle with its unrealistic (almost surrealist) sets is enchanting. Well directed and paced and with sweet Madeleine Binsfeld as Goldmarie this is a very agreeable children's film." (IMDB.com) Frau Holle (1963). Gottfried Kolditz, director. East Germany. USA Title: Mother Holly. Cast:
Once Upon a Time (1976). Rolf Kauka, director. Italy / West Germany. A blend of Diamonds and Toads and Cinderella, this is a little known film that is a cult hit and classic to many, finally released to DVD in 2006.
"The Twelve Months." Part of the Storybook International series. 1985. LIVE ACTION: Meruska, a pretty, hard-working girl, is sent into the forest to perform impossible tasks by her jealous stepmother and stepsister, Helena. In the forest she meets the Twelve Months of the year. Based on the Hungarian tale.
Stories From My Childhood: Twelve Months (1999). Also known as: Mikhail Baryshnikov's Stories From My Childhood. ANIMATED SHORT from PBS TV SERIES: Twelve Months features the voices of Lolita Davidovitch and Amanda Plummer. The PBS series, Stories From My Childhood, features animated shorts from Russia's Soyuzmultfilm Studios, one of the most celebrated animation factories of the 20th century. Mikhail Baryshnikov was co-executive producer of the new English versions, featuring well-known actors' voices. This TV series and the subsequent DVDs collect several of Soyuzmultfilm's most dazzling adaptations of European folklore. These versions are often more accurate than the American film versions of the same tales. Most of the films were originally produced in the 1950s and '60s.
Marshak, Samuel. Twelve Months: A Fairy-Tale. Fredonia Books, 2000. PLAY: Samuel Marshak was born in 1887. His start in literary life he owed largely to Maxim Gorky, in the circle of whose family he spent part of his youth. He first appeared in print in 1907, with lyrics of his own and translations of foreign poets. Marshak also wrote several plays based on Russian fairy tales and designed for the juvenile stage, including Twelve Months. Written in a light and witty vein, Twelve Months portrays twelve wise and just rulers of nature, and two girls of opposite type, the one good, whom they help, and the other bad, whom they punish. The play was awarded a Stalin Prize in 1946. |
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