![]() ![]() ![]() How King Richard of England Leapt into the Sea against the Moors.What Happened to a Good Man and His Son.What Happened to a King and His Favorite.James York's 1868 translation into English gives a significantly different ordering of the stories and omits the fifty-first. The titles in the following list are those given in Keller and Keating's 1977 translation into English. The book opens with a prologue which introduces the characters of the Count and Patronio. ![]() As well as some protagonists' names, certain events from the books inspired past events in the game. In 2016, Baroque Decay released a game under the name "The Count Lucanor". Tale 2, "What happened to a good Man and his Son, leading a beast to market," is the familiar fable The miller, his son and the donkey. Story 7, "What Happened to a Woman Named Truhana", a version of Aesop's The Milkmaid and Her Pail, was claimed by Max Müller to originate in the Hindu cycle Panchatantra. Tale 32, "What Happened to the King and the Tricksters Who Made Cloth" tells the story that Hans Christian Andersen made popular as The Emperor's New Clothes. Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew has the basic elements of Tale 35, "What Happened to a Young Man Who Married a Strong and Ill-tempered Woman". Many of the stories he included were themselves derived from other stories, coming from western and Arab sources. Many of the stories written in the book are the first examples written in a modern European language of various stories, which many other writers would use in the proceeding centuries. Origin of stories and influence on later literature And Don Johán (Juan) saw that this example was very good, and had it written in this book, and composed the following verses." A rhymed couplet closes, giving the moral of the story. (Thus, the stories are "examples" of wise action.) At the end he advises the Count to do as the protagonist of his story did.Įach chapter ends in more or less the same way, with slight variations on: "And this pleased the Count greatly and he did just so, and found it well. Patronio responds always with the greatest humility, claiming not to wish to offer advice to so illustrious a person as the Count, but offering to tell him a story of which the Count's problem reminds him. Count Lucanor engages in conversation with his advisor Patronio, putting to him a problem ("Some man has made me a proposition." or "I fear that such and such person intends to.") and asking for advice. Don Juan Manuel, the author of Tales of Count LucanorĪ didactic, moralistic purpose, which would color so much of the Spanish literature to follow (see Novela picaresca), is the mark of this book. ![]()
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