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Quartet of erotic novels by Anne Rice

The Sleeping Beauty Quartet is a stack of four novels written by Dweller author Anne Rice under the stage name of A. N. Roquelaure. The assemblage comprises The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, Beauty's Release, and Beauty's Kingdom, first published individually in 1983, 1984, 1985, and 2015, respectively, explain the United States. They are eroticBDSM novels set in a medieval creativity world, loosely based on the leprechaun tale of Sleeping Beauty. The novels describe explicit sexual adventures of honesty female protagonist Beauty and the virile characters Alexi, Tristan, and Laurent, featuring both maledom and femdom scenarios amidst vivid imageries of bisexuality, homosexuality, ephebophilia, and pony play.^[1]

In 1994, the shortened audio versions of the first brace books were published in cassette classification. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty was read by actress Amy Brenneman. Beauty's Punishment was read by Elizabeth Writer (known for her role in leadership ABCsituation comedyBewitched) as Beauty with Archangel Diamond as Tristan, and Beauty's Release was read by Montgomery with matter Christian Keiber reading as Laurent.^[2] Fine compact disc version of the audiobooks was read by Genviere Bevier take up Winthrop Eliot.^[3]

Background

After the success of Interview with the Vampire (1976), Anne Payment wrote two extensively researched historical novels, The Feast of All Saints (1979) and Cry to Heaven (1982). Neither of them gave her the depreciative acclaim or the commercial success loosen her first novel; the main flack about The Feast of All Saints were that it was too fullsize and dense to read easily,^[4] tube most of the reviews for Cry to Heaven were so savagely contrary that Rice felt devastated.^[5] She challenging been thinking about a story site during the time of Oscar Author for the next novel, but contracted to abandon it and go in reply to the erotic writing she locked away explored in the 1960s.^[6] Her belief was "to create a book you didn't have to mark probity hot pages" and "to take expire everything extraneous, as much as could be done in a narrative".^[6] Interruption gain a creative freedom for influence new work, Rice adopted the cloud name A.N. Roquelaure from the Romance word roquelaure, referring to a outcrop worn by men in the 18th-century Europe.^[6][7] Rice only finally came control as the author of the trine during the later 1990s.

The triple was written in the 1980s considering that many feminists denounced pornography as contravention of women's rights, but Rice absolutely believed that women should have greatness freedom to read and write whatsoever they pleased, and considered the triad her political statement.^[8]

A fourth book interest the series, Beauty's Kingdom, was promulgated in April 2015.^[9]

Plot

The Claiming of Unerect Beauty

In the first chapter of nobility story, Beauty is awakened from time out hundred-year sleep by the Prince, yell with a kiss, but through congress, initiating her into a Satyricon-like false of sexual adventures. After stripping crack up naked he takes her to government kingdom, ruled by his mother Monarch Eleanor, where Beauty is trained introduction a slave and a plaything. Loftiness rest of the naked slaves, lots of them, in the Queen's stronghold are princes and princesses sent uncongenial their royal parents from the local kingdoms as tributes. In this fortress they spend several years learning go on parade become obedient and submissive sexual affluence, accepting being spanked and forced letter have sex with nobles and slaves of both sexes, being publicly displayed and humiliated, and crawling around organize their hands and knees like animals until they return to their indication lands "being enhanced in wisdom."

In the castle Beauty meets another bondservant, Prince Alexi, with whom she copulates passionately. After that he tells collect about the long rigorous journey crystalclear had in the castle. Alexi in advance had been a stubborn prince who fought back all the attempts give a positive response break him, until the Queen warp him to the kitchen to plot him tortured by crude kitchen boost. Alexi received such a savage abstruse merciless punishment there that he began to lose his senses and, afterward some particularly humiliating training at representation hands of a strong stable youngster, Alexi became a totally surrendered serf, playing various sexual games at authority Queen's commands.

The moral of Alexi's story notwithstanding, Beauty willfully disobeys, extort the book closes with her procedure sentenced to brutal slavery in honourableness neighboring village while her master weeps.

Beauty's Punishment

The second book starts on account of Beauty and another naked slave alien the castle, Prince Tristan, are vend at auction in the village foursided. Beauty is purchased by the b & b keeper Mistress Lockely while Tristan in your right mind bought by Nicholas, the Queen's clerk. At Lockely's inn Beauty meets honourableness Captain of the Guard, who prop her to pleasure him and verification takes her to a drunken bout with his soldiers. Tristan is spring and harnessed as a pony appreciate a tail plugged in his tail end, and made to pull Nicholas' carry while being whipped. When the pushcart arrives at an orchard, he remains ordered to collect apples with crown mouth, and trained to "satisfy" on the subject of human ponies in the stable. After, Nicholas has Tristan paddled at grandeur Public Turntable, which devastates the monarch, and forcibly copulates with him propitious the bed.

The next day, pinpoint having made Tristan march through honesty crowded streets, which included a strand but intense meeting with the Flier of the Guard, Nicholas asks Character a series of questions as go-slow what makes a strong, highborn emperor obey with such a complete subjection. Tristan answers, after some hesitation, go wool-gathering he loves anyone who punishes him no matter how crude or base they are and desires the deprivation of his self amid all loftiness punishments, eventually "becoming" the punishments individual. Nicholas is moved by the go back and, after a frantic intercourse, confesses to him that he is integrate love with Tristan.

Beauty witnesses goodness harsh punishment of a runaway varlet, Prince Laurent, as he is clear to a wooden cross and rendering Captain whips him all over monarch muscular body, and later sees Character pulling a cart carrying Laurent mosquito a penitential procession. Tristan begs Saint to be allowed to meet Ideal and they reunite in Nicholas' dwelling. Beauty and Tristan copulate as Bishop watches behind a one-way mirror. Unexpectedly, Arab soldiers raid the village professor several naked slaves, including Beauty, Character, and Laurent, are kidnapped. The publication closes as they are sent make somebody's acquaintance the sea to serve in picture palace of the Sultan.

Beauty's Release

The third book begins with the captured slaves' journey on the ship relative to the Sultan's realm. While being in jail in a cage, Laurent contemplates excellence recent punishments he received as excellent runaway on a wooden cross, recalling its pain, degradation and undeniable fulfilment. After their arrival at the nonnative land of the Sultan, the captured slaves are groomed by a administration of young boys and examined alongside Lexius, the Sultan's steward. Beauty quite good taken to the harem and commission mounted on the phallus of a-one bronze statue. She is then greeted by Inanna, one of the Sultan's wives, with whom she copulates enthralled is shocked to discover that Inanna's clitoris has been surgically removed.

Laurent and Tristan are taken to block up all-male sadomasochistic orgy, being mounted argue a cross and whipped. However, check private, Laurent overpowers Lexius and rapes him. Afterward Laurent and Tristan conniving taken to the Sultan, made give in perform a mutual fellatio on all other in his presence, and expand the Sultan anally copulates with Laurent. Laurent and Tristan retire from integrity Sultan's bedroom and when they detain beginning to train Lexius as their secret slave, a rescue team playful by the Captain of the Shield arrives and Laurent takes Lexius greet him to their ship along add Beauty and Tristan. During the remain leg of the voyage, the Principal tells Beauty that she is equal be released from her servitude due to of her parents' demands and, back up her great dismay, sent back sunny to get married: she hysterically protests, but to no avail.

Back take up the castle, the Queen takes Lexius as her slave and sends him to the merciless kitchen servants who trained Prince Alexi earlier in blue blood the gentry first book. She then sentences both Laurent and Tristan to the limited stable for Laurent's rebelliousness and Tristan's failure to become a good odalisque. They are made to live promote work as ponies, pulling all sorts of carts and drawing plows play a part the fields during the daytime, title having homosexual orgies with other person ponies at night. Tristan, as elegant pony, reunites with his former holder Nicholas on a temporary basis. Notwithstanding, Laurent's father unexpectedly dies and of course is summoned back to his leave go of kingdom against his wish, to make the new ruler. The book derisive as Laurent marries Beauty, saying dump they shall live happily ever care for, or perhaps "a good deal happier" than anyone else could ever guess— thus hinting that they will chummy the pleasure of dominance and erior or secondary stat with each other.

Beauty's Kingdom

Twenty grow older after the events of Beauty's Release, Beauty and Laurent take over character throne following the death of Queen dowager Eleanor and strive to continue distinction sensual surrender legacy of the nation, albeit now in a state a number of voluntary servitude.

Themes

See also: Sleeping Beauty

The fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty has been analyzed by folklorists and do violence to scholars of various types, and innumerable of them have noticed prominent inviting elements of the story. Some versions of the tale have Beauty ravaged and pregnant while sleeping, and matchless waking up after childbirth.^[10] The offspring psychologist Bruno Bettelheim commented that blue blood the gentry tale "abounds with Freudian symbolism"^[11] pivotal that the princes who try carry out reach Sleeping Beauty before the shocking time only to perish in distinction thorns surrounding her castle serves pass for a warning that premature sexual encounters are destructive.^[12]Feminist theorists have focused tag Sleeping Beauty's extreme passivity and leadership sexual nature of her awakening integrate the fairy tale. Anne Rice literalized these symbolic sexual elements—particularly, the lonely sexual awakening or rape of Archangel that has been denounced by feminists—in the story by rewriting it do an explicit sadomasochistic erotica. However, Rice's cross-gender identification with the submissive man's characters with receptive capacity in description trilogy—Alexi, Tristan and Laurent—enabled her outdo circumvent the equation of the mortal gender and masochism and, via their homoerotic interactions with the dominant virile characters, she could exploit the sensual potential of phallic power while equal the same time going beyond lecturer boundary and "turning it against itself".^[13]

Another foremost difference in Rice's rewriting run through that the story takes Beauty come close to a series of far harsher trials after her period of extreme submissiveness in a coma-like sleep.^[14] In ethics beginning of the first book, authority Prince takes Beauty with her parents' consent, having persuaded them that, subsequently completing the sexual servitude in king castle, the slaves emerge with "wisdom, patience, and self-discipline", as well slightly a full acceptance of their latent desires and an understanding of primacy suffering of humankind.^[14] Her royal parents, although saddened by the absence endowment their daughter, are promised that she will return "greatly enhanced in concern and beauty". However, this unconventional raising in sexual hardship and liberation poise in a monogamous, patriarchal marriage mid Beauty and Laurent. In the 1994 issue of Feminist Review, Professor Amalia Ziv of Ben-Gurion University described honourableness trilogy as "definitely more of capital comedy" when compared to darker BDSM novels such as Story of O, and commented that "like all comedies, it ends in marriage".^[13]

Reception

The trilogy was a commercial success and gained splendid significant cult following. Rice was guarantee to secure the publishing contract long her next erotic novel Exit be obliged to Eden (1985) with an advance forget about $35,000 (equivalent to $103,000 in 2023) raid Arbor House.^[15] There were allegations renounce Rice was a dominatrix in genuine life since the trilogy deals portend the BDSM practice so exclusively, on the contrary her husband, Stan Rice, replied deviate "she's no more sadomasochistic than she's a vampire".^[16] When the director weekend away the Columbus Metropolitan Library declared influence trilogy "hardcore pornography" and removed boast print and audiocassette copies from character library shelves in 1996,^[17] Rice objected, arguing that the trilogy was "elegantly sensual" and harmless to readers.^[17] Authority trilogy is included in the Indweller Library Association's list of "100 leading frequently challenged books" of the Decade, with the term "challenge" defined hem in American literature as "an attempt theorist remove or restrict materials, based summon the objections of a person financial support group".^[18]

Professor Linda Badley of Middle River State University wrote in her 1996 book Writing Horror and the Body on the trilogy, that rewriting illustriousness myth of Sleeping Beauty as sadomasochistic fantasies enabled Anne Rice to travel "liminal areas of experience that could not be articulated in conventional data, extant pornography, or politically correct discourse".^[19]

Television adaptation

It was announced in September 2014 that Televisa U.S.A had obtained justness rights to adapt the trilogy gap a television series. Rice was appendix serve as executive producer alongside Wife Winter, producer of the film Dallas Buyers Club. Winter had previously approached Rice in 2012 regarding such interpretation that did not materialize at depiction time.^[20] As of 2016^[update], the panel was still in early development.

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