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The Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
Kissing the Witch (or Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins) is a collection of interconnected fictional short stories written by Irish-Canadian Emma Donoghue. Each of the thirteen stories in the collection is an adaptation of a well-known European fairy tale, with several tales featuring feminist and queer themes.
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins (UK title, Kissing the Witch) (New York: Joanna Cotler Books, 1997), my third book of fiction and first story collection, is a sequence of thirteen re-imagined fairytales, inspired by traditional European sources (Brothers Grimm, Perrault, Hans Anderson).
Mar 9, 2023 · On Thursday, March 2, Whitman’s Department of Theatre and Dance debuted their production of “Kissing the Witch,” a cycle of short stories based on classic fairy tales. The play, based on the book by Emma Donoghue, contains five tales – four old and one new.
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue. Kissing the Witch is absolutely beautiful. You can't go wrong with haunting language and such bewitching storytelling befitting a fairy tale storybook. It helps that these retellings are wonderfully sapphic wink wink.
Feb 27, 1999 · Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous.
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Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous.
