Shahrazad

85 Here the writer again forgets apparently, that Shahrazad is speaking: she may, however, use the plural for the singular when speaking of herself.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

217 Here the writer evidently forgets that Shahrazad is telling the story to the king, as Boccaccio (ii. 7) forgets that Pamfilo is speaking.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

At halting places he told his company tales from The Arabian Nights; they laughed immoderately at the adventures of the little Hunchback; tears filled their eyes as they listened to the sad fate of Azizah; 154 and the two fat Somali women were promptly dubbed Shahrazad and Dunyazad.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

At halting places he told his company tales from The Arabian Nights; they laughed immoderately at the adventures of the little Hunchback; tears filled their eyes as they listened to the sad fate of Azizah; [FN#154] and the two fat Somali women were promptly dubbed Shahrazad and Dunyazad.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

The Arabian Nights; they laughed immoderately at the adventures of the little Hunchback; tears filled their eyes as they listened to the sad fate of Azizah; [FN#154] and the two fat Somali women were promptly dubbed Shahrazad and Dunyazad.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

Nor was it only in Arabia that the immortal Nights did me such notable service: I found the wildlings of Somali land equally amenable to its discipline; no one was deaf to the charm and the two women cooks of my caravan, on its way to Harar, were in continently dubbed by my men "Shahrazad" and "Dinazad."

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

She laid down a layer of stuffed grape leaves, then a layer of stuffed zucchini shells, packing them tightly together like masonry, alternating all the way up to the top, pressing them down with a plate, as if by making the most complicated food possible, nesting food within food, a Shahrazad of the stove, she could trick time and keep her family together forever.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

She laid down a layer of stuffed grape leaves, then a layer of stuffed zucchini shells, packing them tightly together like masonry, alternating all the way up to the top, pressing them down with a plate, as if by making the most complicated food possible, nesting food within food, a Shahrazad of the stove, she could trick time and keep her family together forever.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

Shahrazad keeps herself from death by tantalising a king with cliffhanger fables; the stories she tells go on to have their own life: they spawn and swarm.

One Thousand and One Nights; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; South Pacific; Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs – review 2011

Supple's Indian A Midsummer Night's Dream was raved over a few years back and here his cast from across the world share the stories told by the queen Shahrazad to stop her new husband King Shahrayer from beheading her after their wedding night as he has with all his previous brides.

This week's new theatre 2011