<P> Hamburger (2015) points out that the design of the Beast in the 1946 film adaptation by Jean Cocteau was inspired by the portrait of Petrus Gonsalvus, a native of Tenerife who suffered from hypertrichosis, causing an abnormal growth of hair on his face and other parts, and who came under the protection of the French king and married a beautiful Parisian woman named Catherine . </P> <P> The tale has been notably adapted for screen, stage, prose, and television over the years . </P> <Ul> <Li> The Pig King, by Giovanni Francesco Straparola, an Italian fairytale published in The Facetious Nights of Straparola . </Li> <Li> The Scarlet Flower, a Russian fairy tale published in 1858 by Sergey Aksakov . </Li> <Li> Beauty and the Beast...The Story Retold . Laura E. Richards . London: Blickie & Son, 1886 . Also, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886 . </Li> <Li> Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast, 1978 and Rose Daughter, 1997 (both by author Robin McKinley). </Li> <Li> "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon", a story from Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber (1979), is based on Madame Le Prince de Beaumont's version . </Li> <Li> "Beauty", a short story by Tanith Lee, is a science fiction retelling of "Beauty and the Beast". It appeared in Lee's anthology, Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer, published in 1983 . The heroine is named Estár; the Beast, a catlike telepathic alien, is never given a name that can be written or spoken in any human language . </Li> <Li> Fashion Beast, a 1985 screenplay by Alan Moore, was adapted into a graphic novel in 2012 . </Li> <Li> In The Last Wish (1993) by Andrzej Sapkowski, the story "A Grain of Truth" is very similar to "Beauty and the Beast", though the beast enjoys being a beast and the daughters of various merchants willingly live with him in exchange for money . </Li> <Li> Lord of Scoundrels (1995) by Loretta Chase, a Regency romance and retelling of Beauty and the Beast </Li> <Li> The Fire Rose (1995) by Mercedes Lackey, part of the Elementals series . </Li> <Li> The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro is another science fiction retelling of "Beauty and the Beast". It won the 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 2001 Affaire de Coeur Award for Best Science Fiction Novel . The first third of the novel appeared as a three - part serialization in Analog magazine in the 1999 May, June, and July / August issues . Tor Books published the full novel in 2000 . </Li> <Li> Beastly, written in 2007 by Alex Flinn, sets the story in modern - day Manhattan . </Li> </Ul> <Li> The Pig King, by Giovanni Francesco Straparola, an Italian fairytale published in The Facetious Nights of Straparola . </Li>

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