Sleeping Beauty - Modern Retellings

Modern Retellings

Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote two poems based on Sleeping Beauty: "Sleeping Beauty" in 1830, and an expanded, rewritten version, "The Day-Dream", in 1842.

Sleeping Beauty has been popular for many fairytale fantasy retellings. These include Mercedes Lackey's Elemental Masters novel The Gates of Sleep; Robin McKinley's Spindle's End, Orson Scott Card's Enchantment, Jane Yolen's Briar Rose, Sophie Masson's Clementine, Anne Rice's (as A. N. Roquelaure) Sleeping Beauty Trilogy and Jim C. Hines Princess Series.

Princess Aurora also appears in the second season of the ABC TV show Once Upon a Time, portrayed by Sarah Bolger

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