Adapting the Tale of Tales aka the Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile

Thefollow up to my adaptation to The Green Bird was already well underway when I finishedthat project and, while I’ve referred to it generally a few times before, it’s time to really introduce you to my next adaptation.

This is totally one of the stories I’m planning on doing.

In college, when I was working on my adaptation of The Love of Three Oranges, I went to read the original fairy tale on which it was based, which was in the collection of Italian tales known asthe Pentamerone by Giambat...