The Book of Romance

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Author: Various Various ISBN: 9783736407466
Publisher: anboco Publication: August 5, 2016
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Various Various
ISBN: 9783736407466
Publisher: anboco
Publication: August 5, 2016
Imprint:
Language: English
It is to be supposed that children do not read Prefaces; these are Bluebeard's rooms, which they are not curious to unlock. A few words may therefore be said about the Romances contained in this book. In the editor's opinion, romances are only fairy tales grown up. The whole mass of the plot and incident of romance was invented by nobody knows who, nobody knows when, nobody knows where. Almost every people has the Cinderella story, with all sorts of variations: a boy hero in place of a girl heroine, a beast in place of a fairy godmother, and so on. The Zuñis, an agricultural tribe of New Mexico, have a version in which the moral turns out to be against poor Cinderella, who comes to an ill end. The Red Indians have the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, told in a very touching shape, but without the music. On the other hand, the negroes in the States have the Orpheus tale, adapted to plantation life, in a form which is certainly borrowed from Europeans. This version was sent to me some years ago, by Mr. Barnet Phillips, Brooklyn, New York, and I give it here for its curiosity. If the proper names, Jim Orpus and Dicey, had not been given, we might not feel absolutely certain that the story was borrowed. It is a good example of adaptation from the heroic age of Greece to the servile age of Africans. All the romances are written by Mrs. Lang, except the story of Grettir the Strong, done by Mr. H. S. C. Everard from the saga translated by Mr. William Morris. The Drawing of the Sword The Questing Beast The Sword Excalibur The Story of Sir Balin How the Round Table began The Passing of Merlin How Morgan Le Fay tried to kill King Arthur What Beaumains asked of the King The Quest of the Holy Graal The Fight for the Queen The Fair Maid of Astolat Lancelot and Guenevere The End of it All The Battle of Roncevalles The Pursuit of Diarmid Some Adventures of William Short Nose Wayland the Smith The Story of Robin Hood The Story of Grettir the Strong
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It is to be supposed that children do not read Prefaces; these are Bluebeard's rooms, which they are not curious to unlock. A few words may therefore be said about the Romances contained in this book. In the editor's opinion, romances are only fairy tales grown up. The whole mass of the plot and incident of romance was invented by nobody knows who, nobody knows when, nobody knows where. Almost every people has the Cinderella story, with all sorts of variations: a boy hero in place of a girl heroine, a beast in place of a fairy godmother, and so on. The Zuñis, an agricultural tribe of New Mexico, have a version in which the moral turns out to be against poor Cinderella, who comes to an ill end. The Red Indians have the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, told in a very touching shape, but without the music. On the other hand, the negroes in the States have the Orpheus tale, adapted to plantation life, in a form which is certainly borrowed from Europeans. This version was sent to me some years ago, by Mr. Barnet Phillips, Brooklyn, New York, and I give it here for its curiosity. If the proper names, Jim Orpus and Dicey, had not been given, we might not feel absolutely certain that the story was borrowed. It is a good example of adaptation from the heroic age of Greece to the servile age of Africans. All the romances are written by Mrs. Lang, except the story of Grettir the Strong, done by Mr. H. S. C. Everard from the saga translated by Mr. William Morris. The Drawing of the Sword The Questing Beast The Sword Excalibur The Story of Sir Balin How the Round Table began The Passing of Merlin How Morgan Le Fay tried to kill King Arthur What Beaumains asked of the King The Quest of the Holy Graal The Fight for the Queen The Fair Maid of Astolat Lancelot and Guenevere The End of it All The Battle of Roncevalles The Pursuit of Diarmid Some Adventures of William Short Nose Wayland the Smith The Story of Robin Hood The Story of Grettir the Strong

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