I used these resources when researching the annotations for this fairy tale. Most should be available through your local library, but I have included links to the titles on Amazon.com for further reading.
Altman, Anna E. and Gail de Vos. Tales, Then and Now: More Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2001.
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Anderson, Graham. Fairytale in the Ancient World. London: Routledge, 2000.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover or paperback.
Ashliman, D. L. A Guide to Folktales in the English Language.New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.
Ashliman, D. L. The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Fairy Tales).
URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html.
Accessed on 10 December 1998.
Bacchilega,Cristina. Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Barzilai, Shuli. Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times. New York: Routledge, 2009.
Bernheimer, Kate. Mirror, Mirror On The Wall: Women Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales. New York: Anchor Books, 1998.
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Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New York: Vintage Books, 1975.
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Calvino, Italo. Italian Folktales. Translated by George Martin. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1956. Translation copyright: 1980.
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Carter, Angela. The Bloody Chamber. New York: Penguin Books, 1979.
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Cashdan, Sheldon. The Witch Must Die. New York: Basic, 1999.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Chevalier, Jean and Alain Gheerbrant. A Dictionary of Symbols, Second Edition. Translated by John Buchanan-Brown. New York: Penguin Books, 1982.
Clouston, William Alexander. Popular Tales and Fictions. Christine Goldberg, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
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Cook, Rose Terry. Blue Beard's Chamber. Poet's Corner, 1998. Steve Spanoudis, Bob Blair, and Nelson Miller, editors.
URL: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/2012/poems/
cooke01.html#1.
Accessed on 10 December 1998.
Crane, Thomas. Italian Popular Tales. New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1885.
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Davies, Mererid Puw. The Tale of Bluebeard in German Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Einfield, Jann, ed. Fairy Tales. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2001.
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Ennis, M. L. Gustave Dore. Wesleyan University, 1998.
URL: http://www.wesleyan.edu/~mennis/
fist255s.mle.dore.html.
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Internet Movie Database. URL: http://www.imdb.com.
Accessed on December 5, 2003.
Lang, Andrew. "Bluebeard." The Blue Fairy Book. University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text Center, [1991].
URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new?
id=LanBlue&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/
modeng/ parsed&tag=public&part=29&division=div.
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Leach, Maria. Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore Mythology and Legend. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1949.
Mendoza, Antonio. The Serial Killer Hit List--Part 1. The Crime Archives, 1998.
URL: http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/serial1.html.
Accessed on 10 December 1998.
Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition.New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language, 1990 Edition. New York: Lexicon Publications, 1990.
Olderr, Steven. Symbolism: A Comprehensive Dictionary. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1986.
Pool, Daniel. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.Scanlon, Christopher, ed. Video Source Book, 1997 edition. Detroit: Gale, 1996.
Tatar, Maria M., ed. The Classic Fairy Tales. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.
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Tatar, Maria M. The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales. Princeton: Princeton University, 1987.
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Thompson, Stith. The Folktale. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1946.
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Tolkien, J. R. R. "On Fairy Stories." Tree and Leaf. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
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van Leeuwen, Steven, ed. Project Bartleby Archive: Edna St. Vincent Millay.
URL: http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/
millay/29.html.
Accessed on 10 December 1998.
Warner, Marina. From Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers. London: Chatto & Windus, 1994.
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Yolen, Jane. Touch Magic. Little Rock: August House, 2000.
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Zipes, Jack. Beauties, Beasts and Enchantments: Classic French Fairy Tales. New York: New American Library, 1989.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Oxford: Oxford University, 2000.
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