Other Literary References Used in
'Beauty And The Beast'

Paradise Lost by John Milton (To Reign In Hell)

Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (Brothers)

Julius Caeser by William Shakespeare (Beggar's Comet)

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Dead Of Winter)

Henry IV (Part 1 or Part 2) by Shakespeare (The Alchemist)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (The Rest Is Silence)

The Decay of Lying by Oscar Wilde (When The Bluebird Sings)

Song Of Myself by Walt Whitman (When The Bluebird Sings)

And we could go on...the list is not complete by any means.

Because of B&TB, many of us rediscovered the poems and classics
we undervalued as students and we are all the richer for it.

As Oscar Wilde said, "We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk,
and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats,
the Hippogriff will stand in our stall, and over our head will
float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things,
of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that
are not and THAT SHOULD BE."