NH Professor Explores the History of Fairy Tales

Nancy Canepa is a professor of languages at Dartmouth College. Her recent study of French and Italian fairy tales won an award from the Modern Language Association. She talks with John about the genre of the fairy tale; interestingly, the first tales were intended to be told between adults, not to children. She also talked about how some of the most familiar fairy tales, in their original versions, differ greatly from the versions we know today.