Footnoting Disney: Aladdin

Published: Feb. 8, 2020, 4 a.m.

b"(Elizabeth) The story of Aladdin is one of the most popular and most produced of the tales from the\\xa0One Thousand and One Nights\\xa0(also known in English as the\\xa0Arabian Nights) and, yet, it isn't actually one of the original stories. In this episode, Elizabeth explains how the story of Aladdin entered the collection, including the young Syrian man who inspired a French author to write it."