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The story of Rhodopis, recounted by the Greek geographer Strabo sometime between 7 BC and AD 23, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt, is usually considered to be the earliest known variant of the Cinderella story.
Oct 3, 2018 · The Cinderella that English speakers know and love can be traced to the French story Cendrillon, first published in 1697 by Charles Perrault, though Chinese and Greek versions of this classic tale go back to the 9th century CE and 6th century BCE, respectively.
Nov 23, 2021 · There have been plenty of explanations for the near-universal appeal of Cinderella, as well as enough analysis to keep a researcher busy for years. But where does the story come from? When was it first conceived? The short answer is that we will probably never know.
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Looking at the child Cinderella, her step-sisters, and her father at the start of the film, the style corresponds to the 1860s fairly consistent fashion, but it does change slightly with the characters’ ages. If we presume Cinderella is 10 at the outset, this suggests that the tale takes place between 1869 and 1870. The stepmother, on the other han...
The live-action version of the movie also takes place in a fairy tale setting, which was never explained or referenced in a straightforward way, but once again, due to the clothing choices and the architecture, we can assume roughly the same time period. The focus was more on creating a magical and enchanting atmosphere rather than placing the stor...
When it comes to the question of where the story takes place, it is actually quite complicated. The earlier European versions of the fairytale vary in location depending on the writer’s origin. The Brothers Grimm version is most likely set somewhere in Germany or a Scandinavian country, given the context of the story, and the origin of the authors....
When discussing the origin of ‘Cinderella’, most people’s minds will directly go to the tale by The Brothers Grimm named ‘Aschenputtel,’ which translates to ‘Cinderella’ in English. Although their arguably grimmer version of the story is the most popular and is often titled the original story, the premise of the story is actually over two millennia...
Apr 3, 2015 · The earliest appearance of the Cinderella story in print was in 1634 in the Pentamerone, a collection of oral folk tales compiled by Giambattista Basile, a Neapolitan soldier, poet, and courtier. Here Cinderella is called Cenerentola.
Cinderella, heroine of a European folktale, the theme of which appears in numerous stories worldwide; more than 500 versions of the story have been recorded in Europe alone. Its essential features are a youngest daughter who is mistreated by her jealous stepmother and elder stepsisters or a cruel.
Massenet’s opera Cendrillon dates from the last years of the 19th century; in the 20th, the Cinderella tale inspired a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev and a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, among others. The character also supplied part of the storyline of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Into the Woods.
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