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.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Anderson, Graham. Fairytale in the Ancient
World. London: Routledge, 2000.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcoveror paperback.
Ashliman, D. L. A Guide to
Folktales in the English Language.New York: Greenwood
Press, 1987.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.
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.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of
Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New
York: Vintage Books, 1975.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Calvino, Italo. Italian Folktales.
Translated by George Martin. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1956. Translation copyright: 1980.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcoveror paperback.
Carter, Angela. The Bloody Chamber.
New York: Penguin Books, 1979.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
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.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.
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.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Tatar, Maria M. The Hard Facts of the
Grimms' Fairy Tales. Princeton: Princeton University, 1987.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Thompson, Stith. The Folktale. New
York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1946.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Tolkien, J. R. R. "On Fairy Stories." Tree and Leaf. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Warner, Marina. From Beast
to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers. London:
Chatto & Windus, 1994.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Yolen, Jane. Touch Magic. Little Rock:
August House, 2000.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Zipes, Jack. Beauties, Beasts
and Enchantments: Classic French Fairy Tales. New York: New
American Library, 1989.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Zipes, Jack, ed. The Great Fairy Tale
Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. New York:
W. W. Norton, 2001.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Zipes, Jack, ed. The Oxford Companion
to Fairy Tales. Oxford: Oxford University, 2000.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.