Death and the Maiden

Death and the Maiden, a concept ultimately derived from the Medieval "Dance of Death", may refer to:

Drama

• Death and the Maiden (play), by Ariel Dorfman
• Death and the Maiden (film), an adaptation by Roman Polanski
• Prinzessinnendramen: Der Tod und das Mädchen I-V (Princess Dramas: Death and the Maiden I-V), five theatrical plays by Elfriede Jelinek

Literature

• Death and the Maidens, a biography of Fanny Imlay
• Death and the Maiden (novel), a 1947 novel by Gladys Mitchell
• "Death and the Maiden", a 1960 short story by Ray Bradbury
• Death and the Maiden, a 1994 novel by P. N. Elrod
• Batman: Death and the Maidens, a graphic novel by Greg Rucka
• Death and the Maiden, a 1939 mystery novel by Q. Patrick
• "Death and the Maiden" was the original title of the early draft of Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, a 1966 short story by Joyce Carol Oates

Music

• "Death and the Maiden" (song), composed by Franz Schubert in 1817
• Death and the Maiden Quartet, an 1824 string quartet by Franz Schubert
• Death and the Maiden Ballet, a 1938 ballet by Nikos Skalkottas
• "Death and the Maiden" (The Verlaines song)
• "Death and the Maiden Retold", a song by The Imagined Village from their self-titled debut album

Television

• "Death and the Maiden" (The Vampire Diaries), an episode of the television series The Vampire Diaries
• "Death and the Maiden", an episode of the television series Foundation.

Visual arts

• Death and the Maiden (motif), a common motif in Renaissance art
• Death and the Maiden (Baldung), a 1517 painting by German artist Hans Baldung
• Death and the Maiden (Schiele), a 1915 painting by Egon Schiele
• Death and the Maiden, a sketch by Edvard Munch
• Death and the Maiden, a painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
• Death and the Maiden, a 1908 painting by Marianne Stokes

See also

• Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden, a 2016 Austrian film