Cross-dressing in literature

European fairy tale (ATU 333)

play by Shakespeare set in the Republic of Venice

Aladdin ( ; , , ATU 561, 'Aladdin') is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. It is one of the best-known tales associated with One Thousand and One Nights (often known in English as The Arabian Nights), despite not being part of the original text; it was added by the Frenchman Antoine Galland, based on a folk tale that he heard from the Syrian storyteller Hanna Diyab.

comedy by William Shakespeare

play by William Shakespeare

novel by Robert Louis Stevenson

novel by Robert Bloch (1959)

book by Lemony Snicket

2003 novel by Terry Pratchett

The Achilleid (; ) is an unfinished epic poem by Publius Papinius Statius that was intended to present the life of Achilles from his youth to his death at Troy. Only about one and a half books (1,127 dactylic hexameters) were completed before the poet's death. What remains is an account of the hero's early life with the centaur Chiron, and an episode in which his mother, Thetis, disguised him as a girl on the island of Scyros, before he joined the Greek expedition against Troy.

novel by J. K. Rowling

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

play written by David Henry Hwang

Romanian fairy tale

2008 novel by David Walliams

1998 novel by Sarah Waters

episode in Greek mythology

novel by Anne Fine

German fairy tale version by the Brothers Grimm

Japanese tale from the late Heian period

Italian literary fairy tale

Fairy tale by Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy

play by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer

collection of Taiwanese comic book series

play by Pierre de Marivaux

Russian fairy tale