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by English author Geoffrey Chaucer (about 1343–1400),
both of which have a frame tale, are other well-known
works.

The frame story in The Thousand and One Nights
is “Shahrayar and Shahrazad, his vizier’s daughter.’’
Shahrayar is a king who marries a new girl every night
and then kills her in the morning. Shahrazad is his last
wife. She tells him stories at night but always stops in the
middle of one just before morning. The king doesn’t kill
her because he wants to hear the end of the story. This

continues for many years. They have three children and
at the end Shahrayar falls in love with Shahrazad. The
stories in The Thousand and One Nights are the ones
Shahrazad tells Shahrayar.

The origin of “Shahrayar and Shahrazad, his vizier’s
daughter” is probably Indian but the names of the

characters are Persian. Shahrayar means king in Persian
and Shahrazad, or Scheherazade (another spelling of her
name), means city-horn. Most of the other names in the
stories are Arabic.

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