Joseph and Potiphar's Wife in World Literature an Anthology of the Story of the Chaste Youth and the Lustful Stepmother
\ Translated by Various Hands and Edited With Commentary By John D. Yohannan
[New York]:
[ New Directions Pub. Corp.,]
, [1968]
x, 310 p.
A New Directions book
Yusuf and Zulaykha. English
یوسف و زلیخا -- انگلیسی
Prologue in the ancient Near East; the archetypal folktale: "Anpu and Bata" (Egyptian).--Biblical narrative: Genesis 39 (Hebrew).--Classical drama: The Hippolytus of Euripides (Greek) The Phèdre of Jean Racine (French) The Phaedra of Kenneth Rexroth (American).--Moslem parable: "Yusuf," Chapter XII, Koran (Arabic) Yusuf and Zulaikha, a verse-novel, by Jami (Persian) "Potiphar's Wife," a poem by Sir Edwin Arnold (English).--Buddhist homily: "The eyes of Kunala," a moral tale (Indian) Gappo and his daughter Tsuji, a puppet play by Suga Sensuke (Japanese).--Medieval epic and fabliau: "Siyawush and Sudaba," from Firdausi's Shahnamah (Iranian) From the Book of the wiles of women; the frame story (Spanish).--Epilogue in twentieth century Europe: Thomas Mann's "Joseph" novels (German)