FAIRY TALES AND POETRY
The blending of fairy tales with poetry results in a delightful mix. By adding sensory details (the underpinnings of the poetic image) and by letting the characters speak for themselves (in persona poems -- first-person narrative poems), many details of the tales are revealed so the scene, or character, is given more dimension.
My research in Elizabethan cosmetology, while writing The Gospel According To The Seven Dwarfs, supplied me with the finer points of how the evil queen became the fairest of the fair. Study of Renaissance poisoning techniques helped determine how the apple could harm one character and not the other.
Throughout the development process of devsing and writing The Gospel According To The Seven Dwarfs, I asked questions of the story and invented my own answers: Why does the huntsman only partially fulfill the queen's order to take Snow White deep in the forest and kill her? What about the servant directed to cook the heart (which supposedly belonged to our heroine)? Is Snow White viewed more as a daughter to be guided and protected by the dwarfs or is she a mother figure to them? These, and other intriguing questions, I raised and answered.
My research in Elizabethan cosmetology, while writing The Gospel According To The Seven Dwarfs, supplied me with the finer points of how the evil queen became the fairest of the fair. Study of Renaissance poisoning techniques helped determine how the apple could harm one character and not the other.
Throughout the development process of devsing and writing The Gospel According To The Seven Dwarfs, I asked questions of the story and invented my own answers: Why does the huntsman only partially fulfill the queen's order to take Snow White deep in the forest and kill her? What about the servant directed to cook the heart (which supposedly belonged to our heroine)? Is Snow White viewed more as a daughter to be guided and protected by the dwarfs or is she a mother figure to them? These, and other intriguing questions, I raised and answered.
Dear reader, I hope The Gospel According To The Seven Dwarfs will delight you with the ways I fleshed out the conventional characters and scenes of this simple fairy tale.