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Bluebeard

"Bluebeard" (French: Barbe bleue ) is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by Claude Barbin in Paris in 1697 in Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The tale is about a wealthy man in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of the present one to avoid the fate of her…

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Aarne–Thompson grouping
ATU 312 (The Bluebeard, The Maiden-Killer)
Also known as
Barbebleue
Name
Bluebeard
Published in
Histoires ou contes du temps passé, by Charles Perrault
Region
France
Related
The Robber Bridegroom; How the Devil Married Three Sisters; Fitcher's Bird

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Bluebeard

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related to Further reading · 116
Bluebeard → Aarne-Thompson, Alison, All, An Account, Anti-Housewives, Apostolidès, Arts, Ashliman, Barbe, Barbe Bleue, Barbe-bleueEstés, Bloody Chamber, Bluebeard's Castle, Bluebeard's Female Helper, Botstein, Caroline, Casie, Chatto, Clarissa, Comorre
related to In film · 64
Bluebeard → Alain FerrariThe Piano, Alex GarlandCrimson Peak, Arthur DavisBluebeard's Six Wives, Barbe-bleue, Bebe Daniels, British, Burton, Bye Bluebeard, Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Catherine BreillatEx Machina, Charles ChaplinSecret Beyond, Charles Denner, Christian-Jaque, Claude Chabrol, Claudette Colbert, Danielle DarrieuxHerzog Blaubarts Burg, Door, Dreams, Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Edgar
related to In other media · 61
Bluebeard → Advanced Dungeons, BBC Radio, Beltrán, Big Fish Games, Bluebeard's Bride, Bluebeard's Castle, Bride, Burning Desires, Caster Servant, Ceramic, Cindy Sherman, Coast, Colin Bytheway, Creepy, Curse, Dark Romance, Darklord, Darklords, DominiGames, Doylestown
related to In music · 58
Bluebeard → American, André GrétryThe Grand Dramatic, Aoki Hakushaku, Ariane, Arthur Collins, Barbe-bleue, Blackbriar, Blue Beard, Bluebeard's Wife, Bluebeard’s Chamber, Béla Balázs, Béla Bartók, Clay, Cocteau Twins, Drunk, Eustis, Eve, Female Curiosity, Four-Calendar Café, Fred
related to References in literature · 56
Bluebeard → Ada, Ado About Nothing, Anastasia, Ardor, Assis's, Baroness Orczy, Benedick, Bluebeard's, Bluebeard's Chamber, Bluebeards, Bones, Braids, Chapter, Chilean, Danny, Demon, Dream House, English, Family Chronicle, Fox
related to "Bluebeard" and Orientalism in illustration and text · 43
Bluebeard → Anna Guiterrez, Another, Arthur Rackham, Artists, Beast, Beauty, Blue-Beard, Drury Lane, Dulac, Eastern-inspired, Edmund Dulac, Edwardian, European, Female Curiosity, Folklorist Maria Tatar, French, George Colman, Harry Clarke, Jennie Harbour, London
related to In television · 43
Bluebeard → Albert Hague, Aohige, Beast, Bedelia Du Maurier, Bluebeard's, Bluebeard's Castle, Bluebeard's Secret, Burl Ives, Discovery Channel, Disney, English King Henry VIII, Fairytale Detective, Famous Tales, Grimm, Grimm Masterpiece Theater, Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics, Guinevere Beck, Hannibal Lecter, IMAX, In
related to In theatre · 32
Bluebeard → Alfred SavoirSaint Joan, Anatole France, Ariane, Barbe-bleue, Bluebeard's Dream, Broadway, Carlo CoppiBluebeard, Caryl ChurchillBlue Beard, Charles Ludlam, Dr MoreauBlaubart, Drama, Emma Rice, French, George Bernard Shaw, Georges Jacobi, Gilles, Harold Saeverud, Jacques Offenbach, Knight Bluebeard, Ludwig TieckBluebeard
related to Literature · 23
Bluebeard → Amélie Nothomb, Angela CarterBluebeard, Anna Biller, Blue-Bearded Lover, Bluebeard's Egg, Bluebeard's Shadow, Eaten, Gregory FrostBarbe Bleue, Ireland, John UpdikeFitcher's Brides, Joyce Carol OatesBlaubarts Schatten, Karin Struck, KingfisherHow, Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood, Maria AdelmannBluebeard's Castle, Marissa Meyer, Max Frisch, Other, The Bloody Chamber
related to Aarne–Thompson classification · 21
Bluebeard → Aarne, According, Another, Child, Devil Married Three Sisters, Elf Knight, Fitcher's Bird, French, German, Her Hen, How, Lady Isabel, Other, Perrault's Bluebeard, Sister Anne, Some European, The, The Old Dame, The White Dove, This

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BluebeardAarne–Thompson groupingATU 312 (The Bluebeard, The Maiden-Killer)1.00infobox
BluebeardAlso known asBarbebleue1.00infobox
BluebeardNameBluebeard1.00infobox
BluebeardPublished inHistoires ou contes du temps passé, by Charles Perrault1.00infobox
BluebeardRegionFrance1.00infobox
BluebeardRelatedThe Robber Bridegroom; How the Devil Married Three Sisters; Fitcher's Bird1.00infobox
Bluebeardis awealthy and powerful nobleman who has been married six times to beautiful women who have all mysteriously vanished0.90text
Bluebeardis avictim of the tale0.90text
Bluebeardis agenerous0.90text
Bluebeardis a1920s decadent with a collection of erotic drawings0.90text
Bluebeardis acharacter in the video game The Wolf Among Us by Telltale Games0.90text
Arthur Rackhaminstance ofArtists0.80text

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