|
Ancient
|
|
1500
B.C.
|
Babylon
|
The Epic
of Gilgamesh
|
Myth
|
|
c.750
B.C.
|
Homer
|
Odyssey
and Iliad
|
Greek myth
|
|
600
B.C.
|
Aesop
|
Fables
|
Fables
|
|
A.D.
5
|
Ovid
|
Metamorphoses
|
Latin myth
|
|
Medieval
|
|
850
|
|
Arabian Nights
earliest manuscript fragments
|
Arabian Nights
|
|
9th C.
|
Persia
|
The Book of Sindibad
|
Arabian Nights
|
|
9th
C.
|
China
|
First recorded version of Cinderella
|
Fairy Tales
|
|
1000
|
England
|
Beowulf
|
Legend
|
|
1100
|
Norway
|
Poetic Edda
|
Myth
|
|
1100
|
France
|
La Chanson de Roland
|
Romance
|
|
1100
from 8th
C.
|
Wales
|
The Mabinogion
earliest source for some of the Arthurian legend elements
|
Arthurian
Celtic myth
|
|
c.1100 > |
Europe |
Arabian Nights stories
transmitted to Europe |
Arabian Nights |
|
1135
|
Geoff. of Monmouth
(Britain)
|
Historia Regum Britanniae
|
Arthurian
|
|
1165-80
|
Chretien de Troyes
(France)
|
Arthurian romances
|
Arthurian
|
|
1176
|
France
|
Reynard the Fox
tales
|
Fables
|
|
1200
|
Germany
|
Nibelungenlied
|
Northern Myth
|
|
1270
|
Iceland
|
Volsungsaga
|
Northern Myth
|
|
Renaissance/post-Renaissance
|
|
1470
|
Thomas Malory
(England)
|
Le Morte d'Arthur
|
Arthurian
|
|
1550-1553
|
G. Straparola
(Italy)
|
Le Piacevoli Notti
mixture of
fairy tales (including Beauty and the Beast), supernatural tales,
ridiculous tales, and jokes
|
Fairy Tales
|
|
1600s
|
England
|
Tom Thumb, Jack the Giant Killer
|
Fairy Tales
|
|
Baroque/Age of Enlightenment |
|
1634-1636
|
Giambattista Basile
|
Lo Cunto de li Cunti (Pentameron)
collection of
folk and fairy tales in the Neopolitan dialiect. 50 tales told to a Prince and
Princess by 10 women over five days. Includes Cinderella, Rapunzel, and
Snow White
|
Fairy Tales
|
|
1697
|
Charles Perrault
(France)
|
Histoires ou Contes de temps passe
also known as
Contes de ma mere l’Oie (Mother Goose Tales)
includes Bluebeard, Sleeping
Beauty, Cinderella, Pussin Boots, Little Red Ridinghood
|
Fairy Tales
|
|
1690-1705
|
Madame d’Aulnoy
(France)
|
Contes des Fees
several volumes of fairy tales
|
Fairy Tales
|
|
1704 |
Antoine Galland |
first major European translation of Arabian
Nights. Included material from the Sindbad cycle, and Alladin and Ali Baba |
Arabian Nights |
|
1756
|
Mme. De
Beaumont (France)
|
fairy tales
|
Fairy Tales
|
|
1760s |
Count Carlo Gozzi
(Italy) |
Dramatization of Basile's tales and other 'fable
plays'. Very popular in Italy. |
Fairy Tales |
|
1768
|
England
|
Perrault's fairy tales appear in English
|
Fairy Tales
|
|
Modern period |
|
1812-1814
|
Jacob &
Wilhelm Grimm
|
Kinder-und Hausmärchen
(Grimm's Fairy Tales),
Vol 1(1812),
Vol.2 (1814)
|
Fairy Tales
|
|
1823
|
Jacob &
Wilhelm Grimm
|
Grimm's fairy tales appear in English
|
Fairy Tales
|
|
1828 |
Thomas Keightley |
Fairy Mythology (extended in later
editions) |
Myth
Fairy Tales |
|
1835-1872
|
H.C. Andersen
(Denmark)
|
Various fairy tale collections (159
tales in all)
|
Fairy Tales
|
|
1838-1841 |
Edward Lane |
expurgated translation of
Arabian Nights |
Arabian Nights |
|
1846
|
England
|
Andersen's tales appear in English
|
Fairy Tales
|
|
1840s
|
Asbjornsen and Moe (Norway)
|
Norwegian Folk Tales
|
Fairy Tales
|
|
1872 |
George MacDonald |
The Princess and
the Goblin |
|
|
1885-1888 |
Richard Francis Burton |
translation of
Arabian Nights in 16 volumes (for
adults) |
Arabian Nights |
|
1889
|
Andrew Lang
|
The Blue Fairy Book
|
Fairy Tales
|
|
1890
|
Joseph Jacobs
|
English Fairy Tales
|
Fairy Tales
|
|
1894
|
Joseph Jacobs
|
More English Fairy Tales
|
Fairy Tales
|
|
1898 |
Andrew Lang |
Arabian Nights in an edition
expurgated for children |
Arabian Nights |
|
1937 |
J.R.R. Tolkein |
The Hobbit |
|
|
1950 |
C.S.Lewis |
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
|
|
1963 |
Maurice Sendak |
Where the Wild
Things Are |
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