Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives

Western Folklore | October 1, 2008| | Copyright

Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives. By Maria Tatar. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 250, introduction, illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 cloth, $17.95 paper)

Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives is an expansive but unpersuasive and problem-ridden monograph. In it, author Maria Tatar takes a second bite at the Bluebeard apple, having previously visited the larder in The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales (1987). Once upon a time, Tatar reviewed the various interpretations that folklorists, ...

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