Old-school fairy tales were decidedly darker than Disney would have you believe, full of allegory and cannibalism, gruesome death, and unheeded warnings. In every tale, a lesson and a zodiac archet… ...

Fairy tales date back 6,000 years, yet they continue to pop up in our psyches and the news. The tropes are timeless.

James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim created Into the Woods, a story in which the lives of famous Brothers Grimm fairy-tale characters collide and intertwine. Read more about fairy tales and their ...

You don't have to look far to see the presence of fairy tales still being told today on television. But what is it about these age-old stories that stand the test of time and have audiences coming ...

It’s a sprawling study of several centuries’ worth of fairy-tale evolution, and at its center is his call for a new mythology. The earliest written versions of some of the Western canon’s most ...

November 11, 2003 Experts say fairy tales not so happy ever after WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Fairy tales about pretty princesses winning Prince Charming are more harmful than parents might think, says a ...

Bavarian fairy tales going viral? Last week, the Guardian reported that five hundred unknown fairy tales, languishing for over a century in the municipal archive of Regensburg, Germany, have come ...

This paper explores how Charles Dickens's use of a female narrator in Bleak House (1853) fundamentally problematizes and undermines his use of the fairy tale's cultural cachet, motifs, and characters ...