Race And The Development Of The European Fairy Tale, Literature Professor Kimberly Lau reveals how “innocent” stories often ...

Not surprisingly, fairy-tales and fables make excellent operatic source material. Composers from the Romantic and post-Romantic periods with a knack for a larger-than-life compositional style seem to ...

The Shadow by Hans Christian Andersen was first published in 1847. In some ways, it is Andersen’s darkest tale. The character ...

Ÿ Students in Elise Diaz's fifth grade class at O'Plaine School in Gurnee asked, “What is the difference between a folk tale, fairy tale, legend, myth, and a fable?” Folk tales, like the story of Paul ...

Once upon a time — in January and February, to be specific — the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts scheduled three events dealing with fables and fairy tales. First, the BackStage Book Club’s ...

We tell stories to make sense of our world. Across time and across cultures, folk and fairy tales were passed down orally to ...

There was once a wealthy merchant who had six children, three sons and three daughters, whom he adored. The youngest daughter was called Beauty by all, and she was as good as she was beautiful, but ...

The Premier Arts Academy is holding another fun performance tonight, the Fable Fest! The show features 75 4th to 6th graders at the academy showcasing performances based around classic fairy tales ...

The folk tale tradition—from fairy tales to ghost stories—has origins stretching back to the start of human speech. The art of oral storytelling predates the written word, and has been used for time ...