Cinderella
Sign in to saveCinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper, is a French fairy tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world. The protagonist is a young girl living in unfortunate circumstances who is suddenly blessed with remarkable fortune, ultimately ascending to the throne through marriage. The earliest known version of the Cinderella story is usually considered to be the Greek story of Rhodopis, as described by the scholar Strabo sometime between 7BC and AD23, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt.
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"Cinderella" is a French fairy tale about a girl in difficult circumstances who experiences a sudden change of fortune and marries into royalty, with thousands of versions told around the world. The story has ancient roots, with scholars tracing similar narratives back to the Greek tale of Rhodopis, a slave girl who married an Egyptian king, recorded by the scholar Strabo between 7 BC and AD 23.
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- Folk tale.Folk_Tale_Name
- Cinderella
- Folk tale.Image_Name
- Cendrillon.jpg
- Folk tale.Aarne Thompson Grouping
- ATU 510 A (Persecuted Heroine)
- Folk tale.AKA
- The Little Glass Slipper
- Folk tale.Mythology
- European
- Folk tale.Region
- Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes
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- Mother Goose Tales (1697)
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- Ancient versions
- European
- Aspasia of Phocaea
- ''Le Fresne''
- {{lang|mt|italic=no|Ċiklemfusa}} from Malta
- Outside Europe
- {{lang|zh-Latn|Ye Xian}}
- ''{{lang|vi|Tấm}} and {{lang|vi|Cám}}''
- ''Kongjwi and Patjwi''
- Other East and Southeast Asian versions
- West Asian versions
- ''One Thousand and One Nights''
- Literary versions
- ''La gatta Cenerentola'', by Basile
- ''Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre'', by Perrault
- ''Aschenputtel'', by the Brothers Grimm
- Summary
- 1812 version
- Plot variations and alternative tellings
- The magical help
- Villains
- Ball, ballgown, and curfew
- Identifying item
- Revelation
- Conclusion
- Works based on the Cinderella story
- Opera and ballet
- Theatre
- Musicals
- Films and television
- Animation - English Language
- Animation - Non-English Language
- Non-English language live-action films and TV
- English language live-action feature films
- English language live-action TV films and series
- Books
- Video games
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper, is a French fairy tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world. The protagonist is a young girl living in unfortunate circumstances who is suddenly blessed with remarkable fortune, ultimately ascending to the throne through marriage. The earliest known version of the Cinderella story is usually considered to be the Greek story of Rhodopis, as described by the scholar Strabo sometime between 7BC and AD23, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt.
The first literary Italian version of the story, Cenerentola, was published in Italy by Giambattista Basile in his Pentamerone in 1634. The version that is now most widely known in the English-speaking world was published in French by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps passé (Histories, or Tales of Past Time) in 1697 as Cendrillon, and was anglicized as Cinderella. Another version was later published in German as Aschenputtel by the Brothers Grimm in their folk tale collection ''Grimms' Fairy Tales'' in 1812.