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Puss in Boots
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The Facetious Nights of Straparola
(by
Giovanni Francesco Straparola
)
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
(by
Perrault, Charles
)
Puss in Boots
(by
Josiah Wood Whymper
)
Puss in boots; and the marquis of Caraba...
(by
Puss in boots
)
Puss in New Boots; A Fairy Tale. By Geo....
(by
Sims, George Robert
)
The Cruikshank Fairy-Book : Four Famous ...
(by
Cruikshank, George
)
The Surprising Adventures of Puss in Boo...
(by
Johnson, Richard
)
Handbook of German Literature : Containi...
(by
Adler, George J.
)
Chronicles of the Grim Peddler 7: Puss i... Volume No. 7
(by
Maru, Lee Jeong-a
)
Cinderella Picture Book; Containing Cind...
(by
Crane, Walter
)
One of the most beloved of anthropomorphic characters in children’s literature isn’t man’s best friend: it’s a cat. Unlike most fairy tales, neither the Brothers Grimm nor Hans Christian Andersen popularized this one. The earliest known record of the delightfully sly and deceitful feline hero known as
Puss in Boots
comes from
The Facetious Nights of Straparola
(1550-53) by Italian author Giovanni Francesco Straparola. History credits Straparola with inventing the tale. Giambattista Basile published the story again under the title
Cagliuso
(1634), followed by French author Charles Perrault around 1697 in his collection of eight fairy tales,
Histoires ou countes du temps passé
.
In 1729, Robert Samber translated the fairy tale into English and published it with the rest of Perrault’s collection of stories. Samber’s English version of the book made it one of the earliest fictional collections directed toward children. Perrault’s gently ironic adaptation of Puss in Boots found its way into translations across Europe, which meant that the famous Brothers Grimm got their hands on it and included it in their collections of fairy tales.
Before Antonio Banderas first teamed with DreamWorks Animation to give new personality to the wily cat in the animated
Shrek
movies, Puss in Boots featured in popular operas, the first being Costantino Fortunato (Italian). The French co-opted Puss in Boots for opera, too, with a subtitle referring to the venerable Mother Goose. Puss in Boots makes cameo appearances in other works, such as the third act of
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s
ballet
The Sleeping Beauty
.
The cat moved from the stage to the silver screen in 1922, when Walt Disney Studios produced a silent animated film. Japanese writer and director
Hayao Miyazaki
produced a manga version in 1969. Puss in Boots jumped to television in an episode of
Faerie Tale Theatre
(1982 - 1987) starring
Ben Vereen
and
Gregory Hines
.
Christopher Walken
played Puss in an episode of
Cannon Movie Tales
(1988). After the 2004 sequel to
Shrek
, Banderas and DreamWorks realized they had a good thing going and continued the partnership for the rest of the series, even spinning off a
short film
in 2011 with Puss in Boots as the title character.
Puss in Boots appears in several stories featuring his wily machinations as man’s helper. Never subservient, he plays--if you’ll forgive the pun--cat and mouse with his targets in the effort to improve his pecunious master’s fortune and thereby his own.
Not only did Puss jump from the manuscript to the stage to the movie set, but he also acquired a series of stories and multiple versions of his story:
Puss in Boots
by Josiah Wood Whymper (1900)
Puss in Boots and the Marquis of Carabas
by Puss in Boots (1844)
The musical
Puss in New Boots: A Fairy Tale
by George R Sims
The Cruikshank Fairy-Book: Four Famous Stories
(1911) by George Cruikshank
The Surprising Adventures of Puss in Boots; The History of a Little Dog; And the History of a Little Boy Found Under a Haycock
(1854) by Richard Johnson
Handbook of German Literature
(1854) by George J. Adler
Chronicles of the Grim Peddler 7: Puss in Boots: Die Legenden Vom Traumhandler
(2005) by Lee Jeong-A Maru
Cinderella Picture Book; Containing Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Valentine and Orson
(1911) by Walter Crane.
By Karen M. Smith
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