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Princess and dragon is an archetypical premise common to many legends, ... In the Isaac Asimov short story Prince Delightful and the Flameless Dragon, it is revealed ...
In the 13th century, Shang Zhongxian (尚仲賢) adapted the story into a zaju titled Liu Yi Delivers a Letter to Dongting Lake (洞庭湖柳毅傳書, English version: Liu Yi and the Dragon Princess translated by David Hawkes, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2003 [2]).
As a subject, Andromeda has been popular in art since classical antiquity; rescued by a Greek hero, Andromeda's narration is considered the forerunner to the "princess and dragon" motif. From the Renaissance, interest revived in the original story, typically as derived from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The story has appeared many times in such diverse ...
The story of Saint George, as the Red Cross Knight and the patron saint of England, slaying the dragon, which represents sin, and Princess Una as George's true love and an allegory representing the Protestant church as the one true faith, was told in altered fashion in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.
The story details the life of Kaguya-hime, a princess from the Moon who is discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant. After she grows, her beauty attracts five suitors seeking her hand in marriage, whom she turns away by challenging them each with an impossible task; she later attracts the affection of the Emperor of Japan .
The Practical Princess and Other Liberating Fairy Tales is a collection of six short stories, written by Jay Williams, in 1979, [1] and published by Hippo from Scholastic. Each story features nods in some way to classic fairy tales .
The Reluctant Dragon (short story) (8 P) Pages in category "Saint George and the Dragon" ... Princess and dragon; Q. Quarter sovereign; R. The Reluctant Dragon (short ...
To rescue Princess Sumia and save her city, barbarian adventurer Thongor of Valkarth challenges the vampire-king Xothun, who has ruled the lost city of Omm for a thousand years. Cover art from the first edition of the retitled and revised version, Thongor and the Dragon City , Berkley Books , 1970.