BBC Two - English File, Shakespeare Shorts: Sanity and insanity - Playing Lady Macbeth, 'Macbeth' - The portrayal of Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth extract-masculine female characters (Cathy1) Queen Elizabeth 1st speech -masculine strength of female characters. The Lady of the House of Love - The Gothic in Angela Carter. Helen Simpson on Angela Carter's Bloody Chamber.
The Bloody Chamber is often wrongly described as a group of traditional fairy tales given a subversive feminist twist.
In fact, these are new stories, not re-tellings. As Angela Carter made clear, "My intention was not to do 'versions' or, as the American edition of the book said, horribly, 'adult' fairy tales, but to extract the latent content from the traditional stories and to use it as the beginnings of new stories. "