![]() Once in the King's chambers, Scheherazade asked if she might bid one last farewell to her beloved sister, Dinazade, who had secretly been prepared to ask Scheherazade to tell a story during the long night. He had killed three thousand such women by the time he was introduced to Scheherazade, the vizier's daughter.Īgainst her father's protestations, Scheherazade volunteered to spend one night with the King. So every day he would marry a new virgin, and the following morning he would send her to be beheaded. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred."Īccording to the frame tale, Shahryar (Persian: شهريار or "king"), the king, was betrayed by his first wife, which caused him to go mad and believe that all women would betray him. Burton's translation of The Nights, Shahrazad was described in this way: " had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of bygone men and things indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. Scheherazade or Shahrazad is a legendary Persian queen and the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights.
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