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Modern Interpretations of Bluebeard
 

Full-Text Fiction

The Seven Wives of Bluebeard
by Anatole France (1903)

Bluebeard's Ghost
by William Makepeace Thackeray (1843)

Bluebeard: A Musical Fantasy
by Kate Douglas Wiggin (1914)


Full-Text Poems

How the Helpmate of Blue-Beard Made Free with a Door
by Guy Wetmore Carryl

Bluebeard
by George Colman, the Younger

Blue-Beard's Closet
by Rose Terry Cooke

Untitled [Bluebeard]
by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bluebeard
by Edna St. Vincent Millay



 

 

Bluebeard Poetry

Untitled [Bluebeard]
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803–82)

Bluebeard. Let the gentle wife prepare
With housewife’s pride her utmost feast
I know with granite glance
And one or two bitter words
How to spoil her relish for it.


 

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