Jack and the Beanstalk
Sign in to saveEnglish folktale closely associated with the tale of "Jack the Giant-killer"
Key facts
- Name
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- Also known as
- Jack and the Giant man
- Aarne thompson grouping
- AT 328 ("The Treasures of the Giant")
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Published in
- Benjamin Tabart , The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk (1807), Joseph Jacobs , English Fairy Tales (1890)
- Related
- Jack the Giant Killer
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- fairy tale
- Genre
- fairy tale
- Country of origin
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Image
- The Red Fairy Book-141.jpg
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- Commons category
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- language of work or name
- English language
- Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index
- 328
- publication date
- 1807-00-00
- title
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- copyright status
- public domain
- inception
- 1800-00-00
- culture
- English people
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Encyclopedic overview
"Jack and the Beanstalk" is an English fairy tale with ancient origins. It appeared as "The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean" in 1734 and as Benjamin Tabart's moralized "The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk" in 1807. Henry Cole, publishing under pen name Felix Summerly, popularized the tale in The Home Treasury (1845), and Joseph Jacobs rewrote it in English Fairy Tales (1890). Jacobs' version is most commonly reprinted today, and is believed to be closer to the oral versions than Tabart's because it lacks the moralizing. The antagonist is an ogre in some versions, including Jacob's, and is a giant in others.
"Jack and the Beanstalk" is the best known of the "Jack tales", a series of stories featuring the archetypal English hero and stock character Jack.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jack and the Beanstalk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.