Arabian Nights Codes And Conventions

The film Arabian Nights, adapted by Peter Barnes, apprises its audience of five tales derived from Sir Richard Francis Burton’s translation of the medieval epic One Thousand and One Nights. Five tales unfold out of the frame story which provides a sixth anecdote, inclusive yet separate from the rest. The film adopts a concept in which a story unfolds from another story, creating an ongoing story of multiple subsequent layers. This concept is commonly alluded with One Thousand and One Nights. The traditional “story within another story” tales are each set during varying centuries and with each upholding its own diverse cultural ideologies.
Although the tales are evidently fiction, the renowned film incorporates many cultural features and characteristics