By now we all know that most fairy-tales stem from dark origins, but the story of the fabled Sleeping Beauty surpasses all in terms of gore, abuse, and essentially the worst capabilities of ...

Sleeping beauty was raped and had children while she slept Credit: Alamy Italian writer Giambattista Basile’s original version of Sleeping Beauty, written in the 17 th Century, has the comatose ...

The Sleeping Beauty theme first appeared in that work that was composed between 1330 and 1344 (though printed much later) and which also included themes of unconscious rape and enchanted sleep, as ...

Home Comment & Opinion The story of the real-life Sleeping Beauty who slept for almost a decade within the walls of this picturesque Chilterns cottage Once upon a time in the Buckinghamshire village ...

Review: 'Waking Sleeping Beauty'Hard as it is to believe today, it was not so long ago that animation in general and Disney animation in particular were art forms given up for dead. Things got so ...