Frame Tale Transmission

myth:frame_tale_transmission

The frame-tale — a story that holds other stories within it — travelled west from the Panchatantra and the Thousand and One Nights into Boccaccio's Decameron, where ten flee the plague telling tales, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, where pilgrims tell theirs on the road. Scheherazade's device, made the engine of European storytelling. — medieval literature