The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- First Published: 1706
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Type of Plot: Folklore
- Time of Work: Legendary past
- Setting: India, China, Persia, and Arabia
- Principal Characters: Shahriar, Scheherazade, The Fisherman, The King of the Black Isles, Sindbad the Sailor, The Sultan of India, Houssain, Ali, Ahmed, Periebanou, Ali Baba, Cassim, Morgiana, Aladdin
- Genres: Fable, Short fiction, Adventure, Folklore
- Subjects: Voyages, Folkloric or magical people, Magic or magicians, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Marriage, Robbery or robbers, Storytelling, Kings, queens, or royalty, Legends, Folklore, India or East Indian people, Sailing or sailors, China or Chinese people, Middle East, Genies or jinns, Persia, Arabs, Fables
- Locales: China, India, Arabia
The Stories:
Convinced by the treachery of his brother’s wife and his own that all women were unfaithful, Shahriar, the emperor of Persia and India, vowed that he would marry a new wife every day and have her executed the next morning. Only Scheherazade, wise as well as beautiful, had the courage to try to save the young women of Persia. On the night of her marriage to Shahriar, she began to tell him a tale that fascinated him so much that he stayed her death for one night so that he could learn the end of the story. Eventually, Scheherazade told him stories for one thousand...
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