"...The show is centered around The Baker and His Wife. This is the "new" fairy tale which exists as the plot line in which to tie all of the other familiar fairy tales together..."
This is true. But I always like to point out, for clarity sake, that the back story of the baker's parents and their problems with the witch and her garden and all that leading up to the curse and taking the baby is not "new" or created by Lapine as some people can think. It is the real back story to Rapunzel in the Grimm books (as it also is in ITW.) They just added the "new" baker into that story, as Rapunzel's brother, with the addition of him having a quest to get the spell reversed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapunzel From the link: "A lonely couple, who want a child, live next to a walled garden belonging to an enchantress. The wife, experiencing the cravings associated with the arrival of her long-awaited pregnancy, notices a Rapunzel plant (or, in some versions[7] of the story, rampion, growing in the garden and longs for it, desperate to the point of death. On each of two nights, the husband breaks into the garden to gather some for her; on a third night, as he scales the wall to return home, the enchantress, "Dame Gothel," catches him and accuses him of theft. He begs for mercy, and the old woman agrees to be lenient, on condition that the then-unborn child be surrendered to her at birth. Desperate, the man agrees. When the baby girl is born, the enchantress takes the child to raise as her own, and names the baby Rapunzel. Rapunzel grows up to be the most beautiful child in the world with long golden hair. When Rapunzel reaches her twelfth year, the enchantress shuts her away in a tower in the middle of the woods, with neither stairs nor a door, and only one room and one window. When the witch visits Rapunzel, she stands beneath the tower..."
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Updated On: 5/11/12 at 09:22 PM
