Antonio Esposito
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Bluebeard's Six Wives (Italian: Le sei mogli di Barbablù) is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, and starring Totò, Isa Barzizza and Carlo Ninchi. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alberto Boccianti and Mario Rappini.
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
THE strangest, the most varied, the most erroneous opinions have been expressed with regard to the famous individual commonly known as Bluebeard. None, perhaps, was less tenable than that which made of this gentleman a personification of the Sun. For this is what a certain school of comparative mythology set itself to do, some forty years ago. It i...
SOMEWHERE about 1650 there lived on his estate, between Compiègne and Pierrefonds, a wealthy noble, by name Bernard de Montragoux, whose ancestors had held the most important posts in the kingdom. But he dwelt far from the Court, in that peaceful obscurity which then veiled all save that on which the king bestowed his glance. His castle of Guillet...
SOME years had elapsed since Monsieur de Montragoux had rid himself of his sixth wife, and only a confused recollection remained in the country-side of the domestic calamities which had fallen upon this worthy seigneur'shouse. Nobody knew what had become of his wives, and hair-raising tales were told in the village at night; some believed them, oth...
FOR a month Monsieur de Montragoux was the happiest of men. He adored his wife, and regarded her as an angel of purity. She was something quite different, but far shrewder men than poor Bluebeard might have been deceived as he was, for she was a person of great cunning and astuteness, and allowed herself submissively to be ruled by her mother, who ...
IT now rests with us to trace, with the aid of authentic documents, and reliable evidence, the most atrocious, treacherous, and cowardly domestic crime of which the record has come down to us. The murder whose circumstances we are about to relate can only be compared to that committed on the night of the 9th March, 1449, on the person of Guillaume ...
In Donald Barthelme's Bluebeard, the wife believes that the carcasses of Bluebeard's previous six wives are behind the door. She loses the key and her lover hides the three duplicates. One afternoon Bluebeard insists that she open the door, so she borrows his key.
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May 13, 2018 · Begging for one last prayer before she and her sister are slaughtered, Bluebeard’s wife buys herself enough time for her brothers to arrive and rescue her and her sister, killing Bluebeard. Bluebeard’s wife has the dead wives formally buried, and inherits Bluebeard’s castle.
that the seven wives of Bluebeard were the Dawns, and that his two brothers-in-law were the morning and the evening Twilight, identifying them with the Dioscuri, who delivered Helena when she was rapt away by Theseus. We must remind those readers who may feel tempted to believe this that
May 31, 2024 · In an Estonian version, the wife is rescued by a gooseherd (or a page), a childhood friend who slays her husband and marries her. In the story “Fitcher’s Bird” in Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1812–15), three sisters are the intended victims.
