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The story of Sleeping Beauty 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. Novels produced by romance publishers are not listed on this page, but can be found on Romance Novels: Fairy Tale Romances at Sleeping Beauty. Literature Poetry Music Film Theatre
Card, Orson Scott. Enchantment. New York:
Ballantine Books, 1999. NOVEL: An unusual offering from Card (Ender's Game and Seventh Son). The novel explores the Russian version of Sleeping Beauty. I highly recommend it. Baba Yaga is present and the sleeping princess is far from helpless despite first appearances.
Coover, Robert. Briar Rose. New York: Grove Press, 1998. NOVEL: Coover explores the dreams of Briar Rose as she sleeps for 100 years. A scholarly hypertext version of this novel is available online at Briar Rose by Robert Coover Homepage.
Davidson, Avram and Grania Davis. Marco Polo & the Sleeping Beauty. New York: Baen, 1988. NOVEL: Science fiction.
Dokey, Cameron. Beauty Sleep. New York: Simon Pulse, 2002. NOVEL: From the publisher: "LITTLE PRINCESS, LOVELY AS THE DAWN, WELL-NAMED AURORE..." With these seemingly innocent words, the fate of a newborn princess is sealed. For years the king and queen despaired of ever having a child. When Aurore arrives, though the entire kingdom celebrates, not all are overjoyed. They use her christening as an occasion for revenge, and her young life is overshadowed by a curse of death almost as soon as it has begun. Those who can, intervene, but evil has a way of holding fast. A sleep of a hundred years following the pricking of a finger is the best that can be done. And so Aurore grows up. Forbidden princesslike tasks of embroidery and sewing, she explores the great outdoors, reveling in the flora and fauna that surround her castle home. Then one day she meets a handsome stranger in an enchanted wood and begins an adventure the likes of which she never dreamed of.
Geras, Adele. Watching the Roses. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. NOVEL: A synopsis from Amazon.com: "Raped on the night of her eighteenth birthday by the despicable Angus, Alice remains in her room, in a near-catatonic state, communicating only with her diary, in a modern version of Sleeping Beauty in which the princess must ultimately save herself. This is the second book in the trilogy by Geras about British schoolgirls whose lives parallel familiar fairy tales." The entire trilogy is: The Tower Room (Rapunzel), Watching the Roses (Briar Rose), and Pictures of the Night (Snow White).
Harvey-Fitzhenry, Alyxandra. Waking. Orca Book
Publishers, 2006. NOVEL: From Amazon.com: "From School Library Journal Grade 7-10–Since her mother's suicide, Beauty, 16, has been visited by the Shadow Lady in her dreams. The teen is withdrawn and desperate to avoid the stares and questions of her classmates. Her well-intentioned father has gone so far as to lock up everything with an edge, even to the point of forbidding the use of plastic utensils, in an attempt to prevent any other accidents in the house. Then in walks Luna, a new student who marches to the beat of her own drum. She tells Beauty that girls with weird names need to stick together. Slowly, Beauty begins to reclaim her life. She finds the confidence to paint again and takes tentative steps toward a relationship with her longtime crush. The allusions to Sleeping Beauty are well done and subtle. As Luna and a handsome male classmate named Poe provide the impetus for this Beauty's awakening, her dream-life begins to take on a darker, more sinister–yet freeing–tone. This novel about waking up from a nightmare–literally and figuratively–is nicely crafted and will resonate with readers who are struggling with grief and similar emotions.–Elaine Baran Black, Gwinnett County Public Library, Lawrenceville, GA."
Lackey, Mercedes. Gates of Sleep. New York:
Daw, 2002. NOVEL: Marina is the cherished daughter of the wealthy Saverson family, practioners of Elemental Magic. But all is not well in this elegant, aristocratic household. Evil portents have warned her father that Marina will be killed before her eighteenth birthday-by the hand of her own aunt. And no one is sure if the family magic is powerful enough to overturn the prophesy.
Levine, Gail Carson. Princess Sonora and the
Long Sleep. New York: Harpercollins, 1999. NOVEL: A spiteful fairy. A beautiful princess. An outstretched finger. A spindle. A hundred-year snooze. A charming prince. A kiss. All the familiar ingredients. But wait! Where did that extra prince come from? And those fairy gifts that were never there before? And what does a flock of balding sheep have to do with anything?
Lickiss, Rebecca. Never After. New York: Ace, 2002 NOVEL: A novel featuring elements from many fairy tales, including Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Frog Prince, and The Princess and the Pea. From publisher: "Take a princess, two bumbling wizards, an enchanted frog, a wicked stepmother, a handsome prince, and you have the most delightfully non-Grimm fairy tale of the year."
Mahy, Margaret. The Changeover:
A Supernatural Romance. London: Magnet, 1984. NOVEL: When three-year-old Jacko is stricken with a baffling illness, his teenage sister Laura, a 'sensitive,' is the only one to recognize that demonic possession is the true cause of his malady. . . . The beautiful characters grow with readers and the style is beautiful but ornate. An extraordinarily rich and sensitive novel. Masson, Sophie. Clementine. Australia: Hodder Headline, 1999. NOVEL: Synopsis
from the book cover: Lady Aurora, daughter of the Count and Countess of
Joli-Bois, and Clementine, the local woodcutter's child, have been firm
friends for all of their sixteen years. Until, that is, the day What is the secret behind the legend of the sleeping castle of Joli-Bois? A century later, Lord Arthur, a young amateur scientist, is determined to find out. But he discovers that science is no match for a magic that has been lying untouched for over one hundred years...
McKiernan, Dennis L. Once Upon
a Summer Day . New York: Roc, 2005. NOVEL: "Borel, Prince of the Winterwood, has been dreaming of a beautiful, golden-haired maiden night after night. He believes that she truly exists-and that she is in terrible danger. To save her, Borel must journey through the land of Faery-and face the dark forces that await him..."
McKinley, Robin. Spindle's End. New York: Putnam, 2000. NOVEL: A synopsis from Amazon.com: In a land where magic is as thick as dust and about as much of a nuisance, the Queen announces she is about to give birth. To make sure magic doesn't interfere with proceedings, no fewer than 21 fairies are invited to be godmothers at the princess's public Naming Day. Katriona, an apprentice fairy from the rural village of Foggy Bottom, is in the crowd during the ceremony, and witnesses the appearance--in a clap of thunder--of the wicked fairy, Pernicia, who delivers a curse: one day before her 21st birthday, the princess will prick her finger on a spindle, fall into a poisoned sleep, and die. Katriona flees to Foggy Bottom with the infant princess in order to save her. For the next 20 years, the princess, known now as Rosie, grows up with Katriona. In describing daily life in the village--the spells, the animals, the ups and downs of human romance--McKinley gives us pitch-perfect dialogue, hard-headed whimsy, and a cast of vital human and animal characters. The plot is stirring and deft, and always overlain with the author's sharp-eyed wisdom. The ending is a happy one--mostly. McKinley understands that nothing ever turns out exactly as hoped, and that a little sorrow makes life's triumphs that much sweeter. --Luc Duplessis
Strohmeyer, Sarah. The Sleeping Beauty Proposal. New York: Dutton Adult, 2007. NOVEL: From the publisher: "At 36, Genie Michaels is beginning to feel that she has hit the snooze button on her life one too many times. When her “commitment-phobic” boyfriend Hugh proposes on national TV—not to Genie, but to an unknown mystery woman—Genie’s wise-cracking friend Patty doesn’t hesitate to give her some tough love: “You remind me of that idiot Sleeping Beauty, lying around like a zombie waiting for your prince. Well, guess what, he rode right past your castle and now you have a choice – you can either go back to bed or you can wake up!” "Genie chooses to wake up. After some questionable advice, her first step is to allow everyone to believe she’s Hugh’s real fiancée. She’ll let him be the one to explain the mistake. Naturally the good news travels fast and, in a heartbeat, Genie’s parents are booking a reception hall while friends are showering her with gifts. Genie feels bad about the deception, but at last everyone is dancing to her tune, and she can’t help but enjoy it. Particularly when a certain too-handsome-for-his-own-good Greek carpenter shows up on the scene thinking he’s hotter than Tabasco. Genie realizes that she never needed a man to start her life – to buy a home, to get a better job, or even to wear a diamond ring. And if Prince Charming wants to show up while she’s at it, she just might teach him a thing or two."
Tepper, Sheri S. Beauty. New York: Bantam Spectra, 1992. NOVEL: Tepper plays with fairy tale in a unique way in this version of Sleeping Beauty which incorporates many other tales. I have heard and read mixed reviews of this book for years which agreed with many of my own opinions. My favorite part of the book is the incorporation of many fairy tale characters into one family. The book is worth reading for its original storyline even if the themes are disjointed. Tepper's writing style isn't to my taste, but this is an interesting use of fairy tales themes anyway.
Yolen, Jane. Briar Rose. New York: Tor Books, 1993. NOVEL: Written by one of the true greats in the field of folk and fairy tales, this novel explores the Holocaust with a storyline borrowed from the Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) tale. One of my favorite modern interpretations; don't miss it.
Zelazny, Roger and Robert Sheckley. Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming. New York: Bantam Doubleday,
1991. NOVEL: Eager to win the coveted Millennial Evil Deeds Award for reshaping the world, Azzie Elbub, a demon, decides to create a Prince Charming and a Sleeping Beauty who will help his cause. Literature:
Short Stories
Bear, Greg. "Sleepside Story." The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1990. SHORT STORY Beckett, M. E. "Near-Beauty."Black
Thorn, White Rose. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds. New York:
Avon, 1995. SHORT STORY Bishop, Anne. "The Wild Heart." Silver Birch, Blood Moon. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds. New
York: Avon, 1999. SHORT STORY
Block, Francesca Lia. "Charm." The Rose and the Beast. New York: Harper Collins, 2000. SHORT STORY Blumlein, Michael. "Snow in Dirt." Black Swan, White Raven . Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds. New
York: Avon, 1997. SHORT STORY
Brooke, William. "A Fate in the Door." Untold Tales. New York: Harper Collins, 1992. SHORT STORY
Brooke, William. "The Waking of the Prince." A Telling of the Tales. New York: Harper Collins, 1990. SHORT STORY
Costikyan, Greg. "And Still
She Sleeps." Black Heart, Ivory Bones. Ellen Datlow and
Terri Windling, eds. New York: Avon, 2000. SHORT STORY
Dann, Jack. "The Glass Casket." Snow White, Blood Red. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds.
New York: Avon, 1995. SHORT STORY
Donoghue, Emma. "The Tale of the
Needle." Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins. New York:
Harper Collins, 1997. SHORT STORY
Downer, Ann. "Somnus's Fair Maid."Black
Thorn, White Rose. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds. New York:
Avon, 1995. SHORT STORY
Fisher, David. "Petition for Guardianship
and Other Legal Relief in the Matter of Beauty, Sleeping." Legally
Correct Fairy Tales. New York: Warner, 1996. SHORT STORY
Fowler, Karen Joy. "The Black Fairy's
Curse."Black Swan, White Raven . Ellen Datlow
and Terri Windling, eds. New York: Avon, 1997. SHORT STORY France, Anatole. "The Story of the Duchess of Cicogne and of Monsieur de Boulingrin (who slept for a hundred years in company with the Sleeping Beauty)." The Seven Wives of Bluebeard and Other Marvellous Tales. D. B. Stewart, translator. James Lewis May and Bernard Miall, editors. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1920. (New York: John Lane Company, 1920). SHORT STORY: An English translation by D. B. Stewart from 1920 is available for reading on SurLaLune at The Story of the Duchess of Cicogne and of Monsieur de Boulingrin. Anatole France won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1921. A highly respected author, he was a leading figure in the French literary scene during his life. Another fairy tale themed work by France is available
on SurLaLune at The
Seven Wives of Bluebeard.
Garner, James Finn. "Sleeping
Persun of Better-Than-Average Attractiveness." Once Upon a More
Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. New York:
MacMillan, 1995. SHORT STORY Goss, Theodora. "The Rose in Twelve
Petals." The Year's Best Fantasy
and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling,
eds. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003. SHORT STORY
Harkrader, Lisa. "Rudy and the Prince." Newfangled Fairy Tales: Book #1. Bruce Lansky,
ed. New York: Meadowbrook Press, 1997. SHORT STORY Kiernan, Caitlin R. "Glass Coffin." Silver Birch, Blood Moon. Ellen Datlow and Terri
Windling, eds. New York: Avon, 1999. SHORT STORY Koja, Kathe. "Waking the Prince."Ruby
Slippers, Golden Tears. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds. New
York: Avon, 1996. SHORT STORY Kress, Nancy. "Summer Wind."Ruby
Slippers, Golden Tears. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds. New
York: Avon, 1996. SHORT STORY Lafferty, RA. "The Story of Little Briar-Rose." The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Volume 4. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1991. SHORT STORY Le Guin, Ursula K. "The Poacher." The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Volume 7. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1994. SHORT STORY
Lee, Tanith. "Awake." My Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling,
eds. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003. SHORT STORY
Lee, Tanith. "She Sleeps In A Tower." The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors. Terri Windling, ed. New York: Tor Books, 1995. SHORT STORY
Lee, Tanith. "Thorns." Red
as Blood: Or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer. New York: DAW Books,
1983. SHORT STORY
Maguire, Gregory. "Leaping Beauty." Leaping Beauty: And Other Animal Fairy Tales. New York: HarperCollins,
2004. SHORT STORY
Marcantonio, Patricia Santos. "The Sleepy Beauty." Red Ridin' in the Hood: and Other Cuentos. Renato Alarcao, illustrator.
New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2005. SHORT STORY: From the publisher: "Eleven classic tales are retold with an injection of Latino culture, providing a twist on the traditional forms while sustaining a freshness all their own."
Mayer, Gloria Gilbert and Thomas Mayer.
"Sleeping Beauty." Goldilocks on Management: 27 Revisionist
Fairy Tales for Serious Managers. New York: American Management Association,
1999. SHORT STORY
McKay, Bill. "Dynasty." Rotten
Relations. Denise Little, editor. New York: DAW, 2004. SHORT STORY
Oates, Joyce Carol. "The Crossing." Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears. Ellen Datlow and
Terri Windling, eds. New York: Avon, 1996. SHORT STORY
Oertel, Liya Lev. "The Real Story
of Sleeping Beauty." Newfangled Fairy Tales: Book
#1. Bruce Lansky, ed. New York: Meadowbrook Press, 1997. SHORT STORY Ritchie, Anne Isabella. "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood." The Cornhill Magazine. May 1866. NOVELLA: Read this story on SurLaLune at The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. Also available with wonderful notes and commentary in: Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. "The Sleeping Beauty
in the Wood."Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies
by Victorian Women Writers. Nina Auerbach & U. C. Knoepflmacher, editors.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Rogers, Bruce Holland. "Sleeping
Beauty." Once Upon a Galaxy. Will McCarthy, Martin H. Greenberg,
and John Helfers, eds. New York: DAW, 2002. SHORT STORY Swift, Carolyn. "The Sleeping Beauty
Wakes Up to the Facts of Life." Rapunzel's Revenge: Fairytales
for Feminists. Dublin: Attic Press, 1985. SHORT STORY Travers, P. L. "The Sleeping Beauty." About the Sleeping Beauty. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. SHORT STORY: Travers, the author of Mary Poppins, reworks the Sleeping Beauty story in a Middle Eastern setting.
Westgard, Sten. "The Dog Rose." Black Swan, White Raven . Ellen Datlow and Terri
Windling, eds. New York: Avon, 1997. SHORT STORY
Wylde, Thomas. "Spinning Kingdoms,
Two." Once Upon a Galaxy. Will McCarthy, Martin H. Greenberg,
and John Helfers, eds. New York: DAW, 2002. SHORT STORY
Wrede, Patricia A. "Stronger Than
Time." Black Thorn, White Rose. Ellen Datlow
and Terri Windling, eds. New York: Avon, 1995. SHORT STORY Yolen, Jane. "The Thirteenth Fey." Faery!. Terri Windling, ed. New York: Ace Fantasy, 1985. SHORT STORY
York, Pat. "You Wandered Off Like
A Foolish Child to Break Your Heart and Mine." Silver
Birch, Blood Moon. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds. New York:
Avon, 1999. SHORT STORY According to Wolfgang Mieder in his introduction to Disenchantments, Sleeping Beauty is the fairy tale theme used most often by poets. Unfortunately, most of the poems contained in the collection he has edited, and in other collections, are under copyright, so I cannot present them here. However, I have included below some of the older poems which are out of copyright for your pleasure or study. Disenchantments is out of print, except for expensive library editions, so I recommend that you look for it at your favorite library or for used copies at Amazon.com. Ai. "Sleeping Beauty." The
Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, V. 2: Contemporary
Poetry. Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann, & Robert O'Clair, editors.
New York: W. W. Norton, 2003. Angelou, Maya. "Let’s Majeste." Poems. New
York: Bantam Books / Random House, 1986. Baker, George Augustus. "Sleeping Beauty." Point-Lace and Diamonds [George A. Baker, Jr.]. New York: R. Worthington, 1882. Read the poem on this site at Sleeping Beauty. Blind, Mathilde. "The Sleeping Beauty." The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind. Arthur Symons, editor. London: Unwin, 1900. Read the poem on this site at The Sleeping Beauty.
Broumas, Olga. "Sleeping Beauty." Beginning with O. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977. Brownell, Henry Howard. "Anacreontic." War-Lyrics and Other Poems. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. Read the poem on this site at Anacreontic. Carlson, Claudia. "Sleeping Beauty Has Words." The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy
Tales. Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Claudia Carlson, editors. Ashland,
OR: Story Line Press, 2003. p. 68.
Carruth, Hayden. The Sleeping
Beauty. Rev. 2nd ed. Port Townsend, WA: Cooper Canyon Press, 1990. Also available in: This book contains a poetry sequence which uses the Sleeping Beauty tale. Carryl, Guy Wetmore. "How a Beauty was Waked and Her Suitor was Suited." Grimm Tales Made Gay. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1902. Read the poem on this site at How a Beauty was Waked and Her Suitor was Suited. Cash, Deborah. "Briar
Rose." Black Heart, Ivory Bones. Ellen Datlow and Terri
Windling, eds. New York: Avon, 2000. Available at "Briar Rose." Endicott Studio Website. http://www.endicott-studio.com/cofbrros.html. Caskey, Noelle. "Ripening." Disenchantments:
An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry. Wolfgang Mieder,
ed. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1985. Clewell, Johnny. "Sleeping
Beauty." Silver Birch, Blood Moon. Ellen
Datlow and Terri Windling, eds. New York: Avon, 1999. Available at "Sleeping Beauty." Endicott Studio Website. http://www.endicott-studio.com/cofsleep.html. Clifton, Lucille.
"sleeping beauty." The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Jeanne
Marie Beaumont and Claudia Carlson, editors. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press,
2003. p. 97. Cohen, Leonard. "The Sleeping Beauty." Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry. Wolfgang Mieder, ed. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1985. De Ford, Sara. "The Sleeping Beauty." Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry. Wolfgang Mieder, ed. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1985. de la Mare, Walter John. "The Sleeping Beauty." Collected Poems 1901-1918. New York: Henry Holt, 1920. Read the poem on this site at The Sleeping Beauty. Ditsky, John. "Epithalamium."Disenchantments:
An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry. Wolfgang Mieder,
ed. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1985. Duhamel, Denise. "Sleeping Beauty's
Dreams." The Poets' Grimm:
20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Jeanne Marie Beaumont and
Claudia Carlson, editors. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press, 2003. p. 92. Ficke, Arthur Davison. "Rue Des Vents: 4 [Sleeping Beauty]." Sonnets of a Portrait-Painter. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1922. Read the poem on this site at Rue Des Vents: 4 [Sleeping Beauty]. Finkel, Donald. "Sleeping
Beauty." The Poets' Grimm:
20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Jeanne Marie Beaumont and
Claudia Carlson, editors. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press, 2003. p. 203. Finkel, Donald. "The
Sleeping Kingdom." The
Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Jeanne Marie
Beaumont and Claudia Carlson, editors. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press,
2003. p. 19. Freeman, Arthur. "Beauty, Sleeping." Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry. Wolfgang Mieder, ed. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1985. Greger, Debora.
"Briar Rose." The
Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Jeanne Marie
Beaumont and Claudia Carlson, editors. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press,
2003. p. 21. Hadas, Rachel.
"The Sleeping Beauty." The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Jeanne
Marie Beaumont and Claudia Carlson, editors. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press,
2003. p. 239.
Hay, Sara Henderson. "The Bad Fairy."Story
Hour. Fayetteville, AS: University of Arkansas Press, 1998. Hay, Sara Henderson. "The Sleeper
1 (She speaks...)." Story Hour. Fayetteville, AS: University
of Arkansas Press, 1998. Also available in: Hay, Sara Henderson. "The Sleeper
2 (He speaks...)."Story Hour. Fayetteville, AS: University
of Arkansas Press, 1998. Also available in: Hillyer, Robert Silliman. "And When
The Prince Came." Disenchantments: An Anthology
of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry. Wolfgang Mieder, ed. Hanover,
NH: University Press of New England, 1985. Hope, Alec Derwent. "Parabola." The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse. Les
A. Murray, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Hutton, Mary. "The Sleeping Beauty." Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry. Wolfgang Mieder, ed. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1985. Jarrell, Randall. "The Sleeping Beauty:
Variation Of The Prince." Disenchantments: An Anthology of
Modern Fairy Tale Poetry. Wolfgang Mieder, ed. Hanover, NH:
University Press of New England, 1985. Also available in: Johnson, Charles. "Sleeping Beauty." Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry. Wolfgang Mieder, ed. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1985. Knight, Douglas. "Sleeping Beauty:
August."Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale
Poetry. Wolfgang Mieder, ed. Hanover, NH: University Press
of New England, 1985. Kumin, Maxine W. "The Archaeology
Of A Marriage." Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy
Tale Poetry. Wolfgang Mieder, ed. Hanover, NH: University
Press of New England, 1985. Also available in: Landon, Letitia [or Laetitia] Elizabeth. "The Sleeping Beauty." Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon "L. E. L.". F. J. Sypher, editor. London: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprint, 1990. Read the poem on this site at The Sleeping Beauty. A 19th century poem. Lewis, Bill. "The Hedge." The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Volume 13. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Lochhead, Liz. "Beauty & The." Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems. London: Polygon Books,
1984. This poem originally appeared in: Lochhead, Liz. The Grimm Sisters. London: Next Editions (In Association with Faber & Faber), 1981. Lochhead, Liz. "The Father." Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems. London: Polygon Books,
1984. This poem originally appeared in: Lochhead, Liz. The Grimm Sisters. London: Next Editions (In Association with Faber & Faber), 1981. Lowell, Amy.
"A Fairy Tale." The
Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Jeanne Marie
Beaumont and Claudia Carlson, editors. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press,
2003. p. 239. Mayo, Edward Leslie. "The Sleeping
Beauty." Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale
Poetry. Wolfgang Mieder, ed. Hanover, NH: University Press
of New England, 1985. Monahan, Jean.
"The Gift." The
Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Jeanne Marie
Beaumont and Claudia Carlson, editors. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press,
2003. p. 66. Mueller, Lisel.
"Immortality." The
Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Jeanne Marie
Beaumont and Claudia Carlson, editors. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press,
2003. p. 101. Nemerov, Howard. "Sleeping Beauty." Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry. Wolfgang Mieder, ed. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1985. Owen, Wilfred. "The Sleeping Beauty." Poems. London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. Read the poem on this site at The Sleeping Beauty. Rabinowitz, Anna.
"Beauty Sleeping Now." The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Jeanne
Marie Beaumont and Claudia Carlson, editors. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press,
2003. p. 98. Riley, James Whitcomb. "A Sleeping Beauty." The Collected Works of James Whitcomb Riley. New York: Harper, 1916. Read the poem on this site at A Sleeping Beauty.
Sansom, Clive. "The Forgotten
Hall." Return to Magic. London: Leslie Frewin, 1969.
Sexton, Anne. "Briar Rose (Sleeping
Beauty)."Transformations. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1979. This poem is available online through Plagiarist.com at Briar Rose by Anne Sexton. Shapiro, Farida S. T. "This Century
of Sleep or, Briar Rose Beneath the Sea." Ruby
Slippers, Golden Tears. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds. New
York: Avon, 1996. Sheck, Laurie. "Sleeping Beauty." Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry. Wolfgang Mieder, ed. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1985. Sheldon, Anne.
"The Prince Who Woke Briar Rose." The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Jeanne
Marie Beaumont and Claudia Carlson, editors. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press,
2003. p. 221. Sherman, Delia. "Carabosse." Silver Birch, Blood Moon. Ellen Datlow and Terri
Windling, eds. New York: Avon, 1999. Available at "Carabosse." Endicott Studio Website. http://www.endicott-studio.com/cofboss.html. Shore, Jane. "Sleeping Beauty." Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry. Wolfgang Mieder, ed. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1985. Sitwell, Dame Edith. "The Sleeping Beauty." The Collected Poems of Edith Sitwell. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954. Poem originally appeared in The Sleeping Beauty (1924). Stanford, Ann.
"The Sleeping Princess." The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Jeanne
Marie Beaumont and Claudia Carlson, editors. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press,
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OR: Story Line Press, 2003. p. 31. Watson, Evelyn M. "A Sleeping Beauty." Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry. Wolfgang Mieder, ed. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1985. Whitman, Sarah Helen. "The Sleeping Beauty." Poems by Sarah Helen Whitman. New York: Hougton, Osgood and Company, 1879. Read the poem on this site at The Sleeping Beauty. Wylie, Elinor. "Sleeping Beauty." Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry. Wolfgang Mieder, ed. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1985. Also see Sleeping Beauty on the Folklore and Fairy Tale Music page. 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. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Sleeping
Beauty. Sleeping Beauty is considered by many music scholars to be the perfect romantic ballet. Disney liked Tchaikovsky's music enough to include it in its animated film. The Sleeping Beauty Waltz is knows to Disney fans as "Once Upon A Dream." I have provided links to some of the more popular recordings of the work below. I do not presume to endorse a particular recording since I am not a music scholar. Title: Sleeping Beauty Title: Sleeping Beauty Title: Sleeping Beauty Listen to or buy the Compact Disc Recording at Amazon.com.
Stephen Sondheim. Into The Woods. In 1986, Into the Woods hit Broadway and enjoyed great success. The musical incorporates many fairy tale characters and plots including Sleeping Beauty. I have included the Broadway and London casts' recordings below. An excellent site about this musical is at Into the Woods. Title: Into
the Woods--Original Cast Recording Title: Into the Woods--London Cast
Recording
Song Title: Only Love (The Ballad of Sleeping
Beauty) Song Title: Sleeping Beauty (Sætasta Þyrnirósin Í Bænum)
Song Title: Sleeping Beauty "Crystal Shoe" by Mary McLaughlin from the album Crystal Shoe (2004) "Sleeping Beauty" by Kinderjazz from the album Gazooba (2004) "Once Upon a Time: Sleeping Beauty" by Helen Trevillion from the album Inside Myself / Once Upon a Time (Bonus CD) (2007)  Download the song.
"Sleeping Beauty" by Doc Abbick in Trinity from the album Fairy Tales & Nonsense (2007) Download the song.To learn more
about these films, please visit the Sleeping Beauty |
