title: Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale
author: Betsy Hearne
description: From eighteenth-century courtiers to Cocteau, from Freudians to prime time TV, "Beauty and the Beast" has captured the artistic and popular imagination. Betsy Hearne brings a storyteller's verve and insight to an examination of one of western culture's most powerful and persistent myths.
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  # Beauty Tempts the Beast
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Beauty Tempts the Beast
  
  
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  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Beauty Tempts the
  Beast](part0003_split_000.html#2RHM0-67b9dcb3045e4a77944ddb7fd9f7b8c4)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0004.html#3Q280-67b9dcb3045e4a77944ddb7fd9f7