Child's Book of Old Fashioned Tales II: Fairy Tales, Stories, and Rhymes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781503177741)

Mme. De Chatelain (1807-1876) was an eminent English author, translator, poet and photographer. She translated more than four hundred songs; one hundred, forty original tales, fifty fairy tales, and sixteen musical handbooks. She is noted for her use of eloquent language. Her fairy tale translations often feature young girls and princesses who save their brothers and help young men overcome curses and enchantments. She is credited with being an early science fiction writer for her work "Sir Wilfred's Seven Flight"s which takes Sir Wilfred to an under the sea lost world and to several planets. Richard S. Bailey is author of a deconstruction of the Antigone myth, "Tiresias Lies: The Insidious Plot of the Men with No Left Shoe"; a sci-fi excursion into the story of Abraham and Isaac, "Deus Ex Machina", which was produced to excellent press in Los Angeles and Berkeley, and an extended monologue "The Hands of the Beholder" which presents conspiracy theories from radical points of view. His translation of "Growing Absurd: Six Short Plays by Jean Tardieu" is the first of the seminal absurdist's works to be translated into the American genre. He is the editor of two "Child's Book of Old Fashioned Fairy Tales", reissues of the Victorian fairy tale translations of Madame de Chatelain. He is a former Associate Director of the Los Angeles Theatre Center, Los Angeles Actors' Theatre, and Producing Director of the San Quentin Drama Workshop. He was personally invited to work with Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett at the West Berlin Academy of Art (1977). His 2006 Los Angeles production of "Shuffle, Shuffle, Step: Three Short Plays by Samuel Beckett" received rave reviews from the "L.A Times", "Backstage West", and "Daily Variety", and was the recipient of two LA Weekly Awards, and fulfilled Beckett's request that he perform "Krapp's Last Tape". He produced the feature film "Cock & Bull Story".