‘Yellow Dwarf, The’
‘Yellow Dwarf, The’,a tale in d' Aulnoy's Contes nouveaux ou les fées à la mode (New Tales, or Fairies in Fashion, 1698) that incorporates many folkloric motifs, including a princess indifferent to love, a pact with a demon‐like figure, a quest to free a captive lover, as well as a (relatively rare) tragic ending. Although aspects of this tale resemble an episode of Spenser's Faerie Queene (1590–6), d'Aulnoy seems to have created the basic plot on her own, and not from oral or literary traditions. This story was particularly popular in 19th‐century England, where it was the subject of chapbooks and saw numerous performances as a pantomime.
Lewis C. Seifert
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