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- At a jousting tournament in 14th-century Europe, squires William Thatcher, Roland, and Wat discover that their master, Sir Ector, has died. With one more pass, he could have won the tournament. Destitute, William wears Sir Ector's armour to impersonate him, taking the prize.
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Several tales in the One Thousand and One Nights use the self-fulfilling prophecy, as a special form of literary prolepsis, to foreshadow what is going to happen. This literary device dates back to the story of Krishna in ancient Sanskrit literature, and Oedipus or the death of Heracles in the plays of Sophocles.
- Muhsin S. Mahdi
- 1995
The One Thousand and One Nights, perhaps better known in the Western world as the Arabian Nights, is a remarkable collection of folk tales and legends from what is commonly known as the Middle East. As with the classical Greek and Roman myths and the Norse legends, these stories are anonymous and have their roots in oral culture, passed down ...
Sep 13, 2024 · The Thousand and One Nights is a collection of largely Middle Eastern and Indian stories. The date and authorship of its stories are uncertain. Its tales of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sindbad the Sailor have become part of Western folklore.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 28, 2016 · 1,001 Nights, also known as The Thousand and One Nights or Arabian Nights, is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian folk tales that were originally published together during the Islamic Golden Age. The stories — from historical tales to tragic romances to comedies — were collected over many centuries by a huge range of scholars and ...
- Courtney Stanley
‘Aladdin and the Magic Lamp’ shares a number of plot features with a later European fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen in the nineteenth century: ‘The Tinder Box’.
Synopsis. Nite Tales is a horror anthology introduced by Flava Flav that includes two movies, Karma and Storm. Karma The first movie, Karma, tells the tale of four young thieves and their effort to rob a small-town bank.
A young, frustrated rapper is doing his best to be successful but fails at every turn. Then one night he's offered the chance of a lifetime - as long as he's willing to do something a little desperate.
