Talk:The King and the Beggar-maid

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Nevil Shute (Norway) mentions King Cophetua in 'Lonely Road' and again in the old-fashioned love novel, 'Requiem For A Wren', a tale of an ordnance wren and an RAF officer, scion of a wealthy Western District (Victoria) grazing family. An involving story, even though the language is from another era. John1410 (talk) 07:45, 11 June 2014 (UTC)John1410

Original attestation?
The article only mentions that this is a story or a legend or a tradition, but it does not say amongst which people or when first attested. The section "In later art and literature", without a historical context, could be referring to any time between 10000BC and 2000CE. Without an earlier attestation, one might propose (at risk of original research) that it was only invented in Shakespearean times. Cryptarch (talk) 03:45, 4 February 2017 (UTC)


 * It seems to have been floating around late medieval Western Europe, but I can't pin down specifics right now. The general plot probably has a number in the Aarne-Thompson classification systems and/or Motif-Index of Folk-Literature... AnonMoos (talk) 02:05, 6 February 2017 (UTC)