Source work
One Thousand and One Nights
Adaptation proposal
A · Faithful to the source's premise, transposed into an AI world
Adaptation note
Proposal A keeps the premise of the public-domain frame: a king who has sworn that nothing shall be kept past dawn, a Vizier's daughter who asks to be married to him on a plan so thin her sister can hardly bear it, a younger sister at the foot of the bed, and a tale left open at every daybreak. From the nested tales it takes the events and the order, by the night numbers of the Burton text, and rewrites every scene fresh. The book is told by the younger sister, who keeps the Vizier's Roll of the brides and adds to it a column for whatever is left open. Violence and desire are never shown, and the source's racial and religious caricatures are not carried over. No thesis is stated; the Roll reports.
Adapted into
Classics Adaptation · Serialized Fiction
Nothing Kept Past Dawn
A Thousand Nights and a Night, Told to Someone Who Kept Nothing, as the Roll Has Them
A king has sworn that nothing shall be kept past dawn: not a wife, not a night, not a name. A Vizier's daughter who has read a thousand books, and cannot keep a word she has said, asks to be married to him on a plan so thin that her sister, who sits at the foot of the bed, can hardly bear it: every morning something must be left open. The sister keeps the Roll. Each night has one line in it.