Beauty and the beast has ancient origins. Narrated by Apuleius, the myth of Cupid and Psyche takes literary form in the collection of Giovanni Francesco Straparola novels ( “The pleasant night”, 1550), up to the elaboration of canonical Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1740), which reduced version of Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and transforms it into modern fairy tale that we all know. Starting dreamlike adaptation of Jean Cocteau, spanning the Oedipal component of the original fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast generates translations, betrayals, reinterpretations, giveaways and even a ‘reading’ Live erotic in 1977 by Luigi Russo...
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