The Robber Bridegroom (disambiguation)
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The Robber Bridegroom may refer to:
- The Robber Bridegroom (fairy tale)The Robber Bridegroom (fairy tale)The Robber Bridegroom is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 40. Joseph Jacobs included a variant, Mr Fox in English Fairy Tales, but the original provenance is much older; Shakespeare alludes to the Mr. Fox variant in Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1, Scene 1:It is...
, a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm - The Robber Bridegroom (novel), 1942 novella, inspired by and loosely based on the Grimm fairy tale
- The Robber Bridegroom (musical)The Robber Bridegroom (musical)The Robber Bridegroom is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alfred Uhry and music by Robert Waldman. The story is based on the 1942 novella by Eudora Welty of the same name, with a Robin Hood-like hero; the adaptation placed it in a late 18th century American setting...
, a 1975 Broadway musical, based on the 1942 novella