What is Aladdin?
"Aladdin" is an Arabic story, set in China, which has largely spread to a large extent through its connection with the Thousand and One Nights, or The Arabian Nights , to which it was added by the French translator at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Since then he has appeared in many translations and has also been the subject of a number of theater productions and films, animated and live events. In this case, the charlatan's sorcerer tries to make Aladdin recover the magic lamp while dies in the attempt, and the wizard has shared his secrets. Through random magic, Aladdin is saved and maintains the possession of a magic lamp, even if he has no idea of his strength.
The lamp properties are revealed when Aladdin's mother tries to clean. Jin or Jinni will appear, and in short order Aladdin becomes rich and marries a princess. The wizard is preparing a lamp by cheating on Aladin's wife who does not know her qualities. What happens is different fromLocals on the story, but eventually Aladdin recovers his wife, regains the holding of the lamp and beats the wizard.
In the literature, "Aladdin" appears as a story in books, in the versions of books of a thousand and one night or The Arab Night and fairy tales or folk fairy tales. He first appeared in English at the beginning of the eighteenth century and was sold again to the collectors of stories such as Andrew Lang, as well as the authors of original stories such as Philip Pullman.
Aladdin was the subject of the genre of music theater known as the pantomime for more than 200 years. In Pantomime, Aladdin's mother is known as the widow of Twankey played by a man. In the production of 2004-2005 at Old Vic, Sir Ian McKellen took over. Aladdin as a film is probably best known in the 1992 animated version, which takes the story of freedom as you could expect.
Film from 2000 for TV Arab Nights , in which Scheherazade tells several popular stories that are often included in the collection, included the version of Aladdin. Faerie Tale Theater also created an episode based on Aladdin's story. Among the animated versions of "Aladdin", one could show the version of 1939 Aladdin and his beautiful lamp with Popeye as remarkable.