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So, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, was written in 1983. It was an erotic BDSM novel set in a fantasy world of medieval times. It kind of loosely drew from the original fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. So, no, Anna Rice was not using a pseudonym to write a fairy tale. Instead, she used it to write four erotic novels. A fourth book in the series, Beauty's Kingdom, was published in April 2015. [9] Plot [ edit ] The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty [ edit ] Hoppenstand, Gary; Browne, Ray B. (1996). The Gothic World of Anne Rice. Popular Press. p. 23. ISBN 0-87972-708-X. She also had co-slaves who were princesses and princes sent by the kingdom to their parents in the form of tributes. In their training years, they are trained to perform nonconsensual sex and become submissive and obedient sexual property. At times, they are also humiliated publicly.

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Ramsland, Katherine M. (1991). Prism of the Night: Biography of Anne Rice. Dutton Adult. p. 243. ISBN 0-525-93370-0.Upon awakening, Briar Rose is taken to the Prince’s kingdom where she is initiated into a life of sexual servitude. Throughout the novel, Briar Rose discovers her own sexuality and becomes comfortable with her new role as a sexual submissive. The novel also features a cast of other characters who are either sexually repressed or exploring their own sexuality. You might ask why there was necessary to use a pseudonym for writing a novel that was a fairy tale. Well, as we all know, living in a male-dominated heteronormative society can be difficult for those who do not identify with either. Also, writing erotic novels by a female writer was an unacceptable deed. In the traditional folktale of "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind's unconscious. In the first book of the series, Anne Rice (author of Beauty's Kingdom ), writing as A.N. Roquelaure, retells the Beauty story and probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. Here the Prince awakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to him . . . as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience. Readers of Fifty Shades of Grey will indulge in Rice’s deft storytelling and imaginative eroticism, a sure-to-be classic for years to come.

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The novel and its writing style have a certain charm that gives the feel of a baroque painting. On the one hand, the novel is very fanciful and vibrant, while on the other, it is oddly still. Worldbuilding

a b Ramsland, Katherine M. (1991). Prism of the Night: Biography of Anne Rice. Dutton Adult. pp. 215–216. ISBN 0-525-93370-0. Amy Brenneman read The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty. Elizabeth Montgomery read Beauty’s Punishment. Michael Diamond played Tristan’s role. As happens with fairy tales, Beauty is fast asleep in the novel’s first chapter when a prince in shining armor comes and awakens her. However, there is a plot twist. In the traditional folktale of “Sleeping Beauty,” the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind’s unconscious. In the first book of the series, Anne Rice (author of Beauty’s Kingdom), writing as A.N. Roquelaure, retells the Beauty story and probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. Here the Prince awakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty’s complete and total enslavement to him . . . as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience. Readers of Fifty Shades of Grey will indulge in Rice’s deft storytelling and imaginative eroticism, a sure-to-be classic for years to come.

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Riley, Michael (1996). Conversations with Anne Rice: An Intimate, Enlightening Portrait of Her Life and Work. Ballantine. pp.74–82. ISBN 0-345-39636-7. The Sleeping Beauty Quartet is a series of four novels written by American author Anne Rice under the pseudonym of A. N. Roquelaure. The quartet comprises The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, Beauty's Release, and Beauty's Kingdom, first published individually in 1983, 1984, 1985, and 2015, respectively, in the United States. They are erotic BDSM novels set in a medieval fantasy world, loosely based on the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. The novels describe explicit sexual adventures of the female protagonist Beauty and the male characters Alexi, Tristan, and Laurent, featuring both maledom and femdom scenarios amid vivid imageries of bisexuality, homosexuality, ephebophilia, and pony play. [1] Bettelheim, Bruno (2010). The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. Vintage. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-307-73963-6. a b Snodgrass, Mary E. (2006). Encyclopedia Of Feminist Literature. Facts on File. p. 450. ISBN 0-8160-6040-1. There is no place for any political exploration. Moreover, even the BDSM scenes are not well-crafted as they should have been. Final ThoughtsThe novels depict the sexual adventures of Beauty, the female main character, and other male characters like Laurent, Tristan, and Alexi. There are vivid descriptions of pony play, ephebophilia, homosexuality, and bisexuality. The next day, after having made Tristan march through the crowded streets, which included a short but intense meeting with the Captain of the Guard, Nicholas asks Tristan a series of questions as to what makes a strong, highborn prince obey with such a complete submission. Tristan answers, after some hesitation, that he loves anyone who punishes him no matter how crude or lowly they are and desires the loss of his self amid all the punishments, eventually "becoming" the punishments himself. Nicholas is moved by the answer and, after a frantic intercourse, confesses to him that he is in love with Tristan. Anne Rice, also known as A. N. Roquelaure, is an American author best known for her bestselling novel The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty. a b Ziv, Amalia (Spring 1994). "The Pervert's Progress: An Analysis of Story of O and the Beauty trilogy". Feminist Review. Sage Publications, Inc. (46): 61–75. doi: 10.2307/1395419. ISSN 0141-7789. JSTOR 1395419.

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Another foremost difference in Rice's rewriting is that the story takes Beauty to a series of far harsher trials after her period of extreme passivity in a coma-like sleep. [14] In the beginning of the first book, the Prince takes Beauty with her parents' consent, having persuaded them that, after completing the sexual servitude in his castle, the slaves emerge with "wisdom, patience, and self-discipline", as well as a full acceptance of their innermost desires and an understanding of the suffering of humankind. [14] Her royal parents, although saddened by the absence of their daughter, are promised that she will return "greatly enhanced in wisdom and beauty". However, this unconventional education in sexual hardship and liberation ends in a monogamous, patriarchal marriage between Beauty and Laurent. In the 1994 issue of Feminist Review, Professor Amalia Ziv of Ben-Gurion University described the trilogy as "definitely more of a comedy" when compared to darker BDSM novels such as Story of O, and commented that "like all comedies, it ends in marriage". [13] Reception [ edit ]Guiley, Rosemary E.; Macabre, J. B. (1994). The Complete Vampire Companion: Legend and Lore of the Living Dead. Macmillan General Reference. p. 86. ISBN 0-671-85024-5. Initially, in the 1960s, she explored the domain of erotic novels. So, after her immense loss at writing historical novels, she decided to return to erotica. The story is a twist to the original story where a loving prince comes and awakens Beauty. However, in this novel, we see a complete turn of events where a Prince comes and undergoes sexual intercourse to bring Beauty into consciousness. This prince is demeaning and of the utmost cruelty. Writing The moral of Alexi's story notwithstanding, Beauty willfully disobeys, and the book closes with her being sentenced to brutal slavery in the neighboring village while her master weeps. The fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty has been analyzed by folklorists and other scholars of various types, and many of them have noticed prominent erotic elements of the story. Some versions of the tale have Beauty raped and pregnant while sleeping, and only waking up after childbirth. [10] The child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim commented that the tale "abounds with Freudian symbolism" [11] and that the princes who try to reach Sleeping Beauty before the appropriate time only to perish in the thorns surrounding her castle serves as a warning that premature sexual encounters are destructive. [12] Feminist theorists have focused on Sleeping Beauty's extreme passivity and the sexual nature of her awakening in the fairy tale. Anne Rice literalized these symbolic sexual elements—particularly, the passive sexual awakening or rape of Beauty that has been denounced by feminists—in the story by rewriting it into an explicit sadomasochistic erotica. However, Rice's cross-gender identification with the submissive male characters with receptive capacity in the trilogy—Alexi, Tristan and Laurent—enabled her to circumvent the equation of the female gender and masochism and, via their homoerotic interactions with the dominant male characters, she could exploit the erotic potential of phallic power while at the same time going beyond its boundary and "turning it against itself". [13]