"The Fisherman and His Wife" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale no. Browse our full list of tales and stories. Grimms' Fairy Tales. "They are the audience's surrogates, representing middle-class working people. FairyTalez.com is the world's biggest collection of fairy tales and folklore. An amiable older baker and his beautiful wife come to a small town replete with petty feuds and comically calcified relationships. One day he was sitting with his rod and looking into the clear water, and he sat and sat. Set in a small French provincial village in the 1930’s, THE BAKER’S WIFE is a gently comic and bittersweet fable of life, love and bread. The Baker’s wife wants nothing more than to have a child with her READ MORE - PRO MEMBERS ONLY Join the StageAgent community to read our character analysis for The Baker’s Wife and unlock other amazing theatre resources! Sometimes I include tales of other classifications when I deem them relevant to the theme. As with similar characters in many Sondheim shows, they are our way into the story. I have included the English language tales of this type which have been gathered by title by D. L. Ashliman in his A Guide to Folktales in the English Language. And once as he was sitting with his rod, looking at the clear water, his line suddenly went down, far down below, and when he drew it up again, he brought out a large Flounder. Yes and no. 19. The film boasts a massively large and very star studded cast featuring: Meryl Streep as the Witch, James Corden as the Baker, Emily Blunt as the Baker’s Wife, … It was Thumbelina. It helps to link the other fairy tales in the show. The storyline of the Baker and his wife was made up for the play itself, however, there is at least one fairy tale that involved a couple who could not have children. Grimm's Fairy Tales This book contains 209 tales collected by the brothers Grimm. Modern usage. The exact print source is unknown. The Baker & His Wife The tale of the baker and his wife is an original story by James Lapine which was created for Into the Wood. The Baker and the Baker’s Wife The glue in the story holding all the fairy tales together are the Baker (James Corden), and the Baker’s Wife ( Emily Blunt ). It is Aarne–Thompson type 555, the fisherman and his wife. The etext appears to be based on the translation by Margaret Hunt called Grimm's Household Tales, but it is not identical to her edition. Cinderella's Prince has an affair with the baker's wife as well, and when confronted about his womanizing, states "I was raised to be charming, not sincere.". The father sent one of the boys in haste to the spring to fetch water for the baptism. There was once a miller who was poor, but he had one beautiful daughter. There was once a fisherman and his wife who lived together in a hovel by the sea-shore, and the fisherman went out every day with his hook and line to catch fish, and he angled and angled.