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A musical, Aesop's Fables by British playwright Peter Terson, first produced in 1983, [151] was performed by the Isango Portobello company, directed by Mark Dornford-May at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2010. [152] The play tells the story of the black slave Aesop, who learns that freedom is earned and kept through being ...
This are a list of those fables attributed to the ancient Greek storyteller, Aesop, or stories about him, which have been in many Wikipedia articles. Many hundreds of others have been collected his creation of fables over the centuries, as described on the Aesopica website. [1]
Gustave Doré's 1867 print of the ape astride a sea monster. The Ape (or monkey) and the Dolphin is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 73 in the Perry Index. [1] Due to its appearance among La Fontaine's Fables, it has always been popular in France, but in Britain treatment of the story was rarer until the 19th century.
The Miser and his Gold (or Treasure) is one of Aesop's Fables that deals directly with human weaknesses, in this case the wrong use of possessions. Since this is a story dealing only with humans, it allows the point to be made directly through the medium of speech rather than be surmised from the situation. It is numbered 225 in the Perry Index ...
The Snake and the Farmer is a fable attributed to Aesop, of which there are ancient variants and several more from both Europe and India dating from Mediaeval times. The story is classed as Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 285D, and its theme is that a broken friendship cannot be mended. [1]
When William Caxton featured the story in 1484, he added a comment advising caution against hypocrisy, again quoting the scriptural admonition. [4] By the time the fable appeared in the collection illustrated by Francis Barlow (1687) the emphasis had shifted to asking for proof to back the frog's boasts: Pretences which no reall actions prop,
The story is very close in detail to the Javasakuna Jataka in the Buddhist scriptures. In this it is a woodpecker that dislodges the bone from a lion's throat, having first taken the precaution of propping its mouth open with a stick. On testing his gratitude later, the woodpecker is given the same answer as the wolf's and reflects on the ...