Everyone has their favorite moment of this classic romance: whether it’s when Belle takes care of the Beast after their encounter with wolves, when he shows her the library of every girl’s dreams, or of course, the dance that cements their story as a tale as old as time. Yes, I’m talking about Beauty and the […]
Beauty and the Beast is one of a strange species of tale whose retellings have eclipsed the original. Just a year after Villeneuve’s death in 1756, the first retelling was published, written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Beaumont trimmed the story considerably, stripping out the backstories for Beauty, Beast, and their families, truncating the action, […]