Preface: three hundred years of "Bluebeard" in English
Variants and variations
Principal variants
Pirates and true Bluebeards
Bluebeard in the English eighteenth century
Found in translation : Charles Perrault's "Bluebeard" in English
A "tree tail'd bashaw" : Bluebeard takes a Turkish turn
Bluebeard in the English nineteenth century
Cheap thrills : Bluebeard in chapbooks and juveniles
"You outrageous man!" : Bluebeard on the comic stage
Bluebeard in Victorian arts and letters
Bluebeard in the English twentieth century
Bluebeard in crisis
Modernist Bluebeard
Contemporary Bluebeard
Epilogue: Bluebeard today.