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  1. Various characters have been featured in Disney's Beauty and the Beast franchise. This list includes those from the 1991 animated film, its direct-to-video follow-up, a short story collection, the stage musical adaptation, and the 2017 live-action and computer animation remake .

  2. Dec 26, 2018 · Iona and Peter Opie, in their The Classic Fairy Tales, call ‘Beauty and the Beast’ the most symbolic fairy tale after Cinderella, and ‘the most intellectually satisfying’. It’s also one of the oldest: we can trace the archetypal versions of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ back some 4,000 years, making it over 1,000 years older than Homer.

  3. Harries identifies the two most popular strands of fairy-tale in the 18th century as the fantastical romance for adults and the didactic tale for children. Beauty and the Beast is interesting as it bridges this gap, with Villeneuve's version being written as a salon tale for adults and Beaumont's being written as a didactic tale for children.

  4. Nov 21, 2023 · This lesson introduces the original author of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, describes the characters of the story, and recounts the plot of this classic fairy tale. Updated:...

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  5. Beauty and the Beast is a literary fairy tale written by French author Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, first published in 1756. A wealthy merchant has six children, three sons and three daughters, the three of them really beautiful, although the fairest was the youngest, the reason why she...

  6. "Beauty and the Beast" (French: La Belle et la Bête) is a traditional fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins.

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  8. Beauty and the Beast. Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1740. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF. Access Full Guide.

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