Puer Adoptatus: Difference between revisions

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AdoptionAge versus youthChildrenDeathDebtDeceptionDeceitful sonPrideFamilial relationshipsFather/son relationshipsFoolish old manLesson: greed

An adopted son wants to live frivolously and also inherit from his father, a French gentleman. To achieve this, he incites the murder of his innocent stepmother and then uses seven other to strangle his father.

Adapted from Wikeley (1983) by Ava Byrne.

Note
Analogous to Italian versions, although Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben sees similarities in the middle Dutch drama Esmoreit.

Critical Literature
Hoffman von Fallersleben (1838)

Puer Adoptatus appears in the following versions and secondary versions

Puer Adoptatus is narrated in the following occurrences

Narrator	Pages
Empress	Erasto, L'Amabile di Continentia

Puer Adoptatus appears in the following manuscripts
This inset story appears in no manuscripts of the database

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-|Has Note=Analogous to Italian versions, although Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben sees similarities in the middle Dutch drama Esmorzeit.
+|Has Critical Literature=Hoffman von Fallersleben (1838)
+|Has Motif=Adoption; Age versus youth; Children; Death; Debt; Deception; Deceitful son; Pride; Familial relationships; Father/son relationships; Foolish old man; Lesson: greed
+|Has Summary=An adopted son wants to live frivolously and also inherit from his father, a French gentleman. To achieve this, he incites the murder of his innocent stepmother and then uses seven other to strangle his father.
+Adapted from Wikeley (1983) by Ava Byrne.
+|Has Note=Analogous to Italian versions, although Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben sees similarities in the middle Dutch drama Esmoreit.
 }}