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The Life and Death of Little Red Ridinghood. a Tragedy, Adapted from the Germ. of L. Tieck - Softcover

Jane Browning Smith

 
9780461155136: The Life and Death of Little Red Ridinghood. a Tragedy, Adapted from the Germ. of L. Tieck

Synopsis

The Life And Death Of Little Red Ridinghood. A Tragedy, Adapted From The Germ. Of L. Tieck by Jane Browning Smith is a nineteenth-century stage drama that reworks the familiar Little Red Riding Hood tale into a solemn tragedy. The work presents a prologue and multiple scenes featuring characters such as Grandmother, Little Red Riding Hood, the Wolf, the Huntsman, Jenny, Peter, and a chorus of forest birds, with returns to moral commentary and parable. Though rooted in a children’s story, the play engages grave themes of innocence, mortality, and the cruelty of humankind, weaving songs, speech, and dialogue to explore empathy, punishment, and vengeance. The Wolf narrates a backstory of oppression and revenge against humans, while Red Riding Hood’s journey to her Grandmother’s house culminates in a tragic resolution: the Wolf is slain by the Huntsman, but Red Riding Hood dies in the course of the events. The drama thus offers a stark, moralized reinterpretation of a familiar tale, balancing tenderness with tragedy and consequence.

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