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"The King and the Beggar-maid" is a 16th-century broadside ballad [1] that tells of an African king, Cophetua, and his love for the beggar Penelophon (Shakespearean Zenelophon). Artists and writers have referenced the story, and King Cophetua has become a byword for "a man who falls in love with a woman instantly and proposes marriage immediately".
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid is an 1884 painting by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.The painting illustrates the story of 'The King and the Beggar-maid", which tells the legend of the prince Cophetua who fell in love at first sight with the beggar Penelophon.
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (painting) (1884), Tate Britain, London. The Pilgrim at the Gate of Idleness (1884), Dallas Museum of Art. The Morning of the Resurrection (1886), Tate Britain, London. Sibylla Delphica (1886), Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester. The Garden of Pan (c. 1886), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Burne-Jones with William Morris, 1874, by Frederick Hollyer. Born Edward Coley Burne Jones (the hyphenation of his last names was introduced later) was born in Birmingham, the son of a Welshman, Edward Richard Jones, a frame-maker at Bennetts Hill, where a blue plaque commemorates the painter's childhood.
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid may refer to: The King and the Beggar-maid , a story King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (painting) , an 1884 painting by Edward Burne-Jones
After Burne-Jones' 1884 painting King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid was a great success at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, Love Among the Ruins was lent for exhibition at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1893.
George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1912, staged 1913) owes something to both the Greek Pygmalion and the legend of "King Cophetua and the beggar maid"; in which a king lacks interest in women, but one day falls in love with a young beggar-girl, later educating her to be his queen.
La Presqu’île (The Peninsula, 1970) is a collection of three short pieces by French writer Julien Gracq that takes its name from its second work, a novella, which is preceded by La Route and followed by Le Roi Cophetua (King Cophetua). The Peninsula and King Cophetua have been published separately in English by Green Integer (2011) [1] and ...