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“Heads and Maidenheads: Scheherazade in Eighteenth-Century England.”Angelina Del Balzo, UCLA, Department of English Literature

Angelina Del Balzo, UCLA, Department of English Literature Monday, February 25th, 5:40-7:00 pm, G-160 "Heads and Maidenheads: Scheherazade in Eighteenth-Century England."   Description: This talk will look at adaptations of the frame tale of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, that is, the story of Scheherazade, in eighteenth-century England: Galland’s translation in English, itself an adaptation of Alf layla wa laya;  Delarivier […]

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