ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -’Scheherazade, ’ 1001 Nights Retold in a Symphony : NPR. ‘Scheherazade, ’ 1001 Nights Retold in a Symphony For centuries, storytellers of the Middle East have been retelling the tales of Sinbad and Aladdin. But the first teller of those tales, according to legend, was a young bride named Scheherazade.

Detailed explanation-2: -Scheherazade (/ʃəˌhɛrəˈzɑːd, -də/) is a major female character and the storyteller in the frame narrative of the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the One Thousand and One Nights.

Detailed explanation-3: -Scheherazade, also commonly Sheherazade (Russian: , tr. Shekherazada, IPA: [ʂɨxʲɪrɐˈzadə]), Op. 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888 and based on One Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights).

Detailed explanation-4: -The story, which was written many hundreds of years ago, tells of a Arabian king who married a young girl every night. At the end of every night he would send his new wife to have her head chopped off. He had already killed 3000 women in this way. Then, one day, Scheherazade heard about the king.

Detailed explanation-5: -It was a huge hit, and Galland decided to continue with the other tales. He published the first batch of stories of One Thousand and One Nights in 1704.