Queen in love with own brother kills her husband.
Deceptions. · Villains and traitors. · Treacherous relatives. · view the constellation · filed as K2213.3.4
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , A Midsummer-Night's Dream Act 2
- Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 22
- Greek The Odyssey , Book I
- Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 18
Filed across the traditions
- India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index
Filed under Faithless wife plots with paramour against husband's life. (Cf. K2213.5.)
Filed beside it
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