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The show is created and co-directed by Shabnam Rezaei and Aly Jetha. [ 2 ] Borrowing from the original premise of the classical tales of One Thousand and One Nights , the TV series features Scheherazade , the storyteller, in a Persian court with her sister Donyazad , King Shahryar , Prince Shahzaman and a playful monkey named Maymoon.
Illustration of One Thousand and One Nights by Sani ol molk, Iran, 1849–1856. Leitwortstil is "the purposeful repetition of words" in a given literary piece that "usually expresses a motif or theme important to the given story." This device occurs in the One Thousand and One Nights, which binds several tales in a story cycle. The storytellers ...
At the end of 1,001 nights, and 1,000 stories, Scheherazade finally told the king that she had no more tales to tell him. She summoned her three sons that she had bore him during the 1000 nights to come in before the king (one was a nursling, one was crawling, and one could walk) and she placed them in front of the king.
The One Thousand and One Nights, translated by Antoine Galland " Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves " ( Arabic : علي بابا والأربعون لصا ) is a folk tale in Arabic added to the One Thousand and One Nights in the 18th century by its French translator Antoine Galland , who heard it from Syrian storyteller Hanna Diyab .
Burton's translation (The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night 1885–88) enjoyed huge public success but was criticised for its use of archaic language and excessive erotic detail. [14] According to Ulrich Marzolph, as of 2004, Burton's translation remained the most complete version of One Thousand and One Nights in English. [14]
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One Hundred and One Nights, a book of Arab literature consisting of twenty stories which presents many similarities to the more famous One Thousand and One Nights Le livre des mille nuits et une nuit , a French translation of One Thousand and One Nights by J.C. Mardrus