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Mikhail Nesterov.The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights. 1889. The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights (Russian: «Сказка о мёртвой царевне и о семи богатырях», romanized: Skazka o myortvoy tsarevne i o semi bogatyryakh, literally: "The Tale of the Dead Tsarevna and of the Seven Bogatyrs") is an 1833 poem by Aleksandr Pushkin ...
The poem was also the base for Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare as the first book in the Dark Artifices series. Each chapter title is taken directly from the poem. The web series "Kissing in the Rain" features a shortened version of the poem with Sean Persaud as Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Kate Wiles as Annabel Lee. Both actors reprised their ...
Layla and Majnun (Arabic: مجنون ليلى majnūn laylā "Layla's Mad Lover"; Persian: لیلی و مجنون, romanized: laylâ o majnun) [1] is a Persian poem by the 12th century Iranian poet Nizami Ganjavi, inspired by an old story of Arab origin, [2] [3] about the 7th-century Arabic poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah and his lover Layla binti ...
Sleeping Beauty (French: La Belle au bois dormant, or The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood [1] [a]; German: Dornröschen, or Little Briar Rose), also titled in English as The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, is a fairy tale about a princess cursed by an evil fairy to sleep for a hundred years before being awakened by a handsome prince.
Anne Sexton wrote an adaptation as a poem called "The Maiden without Hands" in her collection Transformations (1971), a book in which she reenvisions sixteen of the Grimm's Fairy tales. [19] Stephanie Oakes's Young Adult novel retelling The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly tells the story of a 17-year-old girl with no hands, incarcerated in prison.
Thomas Berger retold the story of Tristan and Isolde in his 1978 interpretation of the Arthurian legend, Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel. Dee Morrison Meaney told the tale from Iseult's perspective in the 1985 novel Iseult, focusing on the magical side of the story and how the arrival of the Saxons ended the druidic tradition and magical creatures.
The story was first recorded by the Greek historian Strabo in the late first century BC or early first century AD and is considered the earliest known variant of the "Cinderella" story. [1] The origins of the fairy-tale figure may be traced back to the 6th-century BC hetaera Rhodopis .
One of Griselda's children is taken away from her in an illustration from Eliza Haweis' 1882 book Chaucer for Children. In the most famous version of the Griselda tale, written by Giovanni Boccaccio c. 1350, [1] [2] [3] Griselda marries Gualtieri, the Marquis of Saluzzo, who tests her by declaring that their two children—a son and a daughter—must both be put to death.