The Tiny Play Reader Adapted from Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US The Tiny Play Reader Adapted from Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US 3rd edition, revised and enlarged

en_US By Anne E. Roberts

Creator

en_US Roberts, Anne E.

Contributor

en_US Rapson, K.A.

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:18Z

en_US 2004-06

en_US 1930?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:18Z

Date Issued

en_US 1930

Abstract

en_US Twenty-four one-page fables are presented in dramatic form, with polysyllabic words hyphenated. Some versions become unusual, perhaps under the pressure to keep them short and to express them in dialogue form. Thus the milkmaid dreams only of eggs, chickens, and then what she can buy with the profits from them (5). The old woman starts waking up the maids one line after they have killed the cock (18). Similarly the fox at the finish-line speaks one line after the tortoise says he must pass the fox quietly (22). The Leopard and the Fox has four characters speak once each (23); if I were a child hearing the story for the first time, I think I would be confused. The same pattern appears in DLS (29). The brevity may help the telling of a fable like The Crow and the Doves, especially when the whitewashed crow is rejected when he returns to the crows (21). There are six full-page black-and-white illustrations.

Identifier

en_US 4960 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80557

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Charles and Son, Ltd.; Clarke, Irwin & Company

en_US London

Subject

en_US LB1573.R63 1930

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole