Sleeping Beauty hasn't always been a docile object, says Lyn Gardner. She's had to face a cannibal queen, a rapist king - and even a Nazi princeFor our age of anxiety, Sleeping Beauty is the perfect fairy tale. The spectre at the feast comes in many guises: we may call her Carabosse, or Maleficent, or terrorist, paedophile or serial killer, but the threat - real or simply a product of our over-fevered imaginations - …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM on December 1, 2017