Beauty & the Beast: An Extravaganza. Written for a Christmas, At Brown's Green, by the Author.
Browns Green, Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, England: Privately Printed, circa 1850. Wraps. This rare dramatic retelling of Beauty & the Beast takes place between Baghdad and Cairo, where an Iraqi merchant in dire straits steals a rose from a bear and must send his favorite daughter (Beauty/Fatima) to live with the... More