The Arabian Nights

The Arabian Nights is the most popular English title for the collection of Middle Eastern folk tales called أَلْف لَيْلَة وَلَيْلَة‎‎ in Arabic (pronounced "Alf layla wa-layla", and meaning "One Thousand and One Nights"), compiled during the Islamic Golden Age.

=The original stories=

This title derives from the first English-language edition (1706), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment, in turn based on the first European version (1704–1717) by Antoine Galland, called Les Mille et une nuits, contes arabes traduits en français ("Thousand and one nights, Arab stories translated into French"), and also containing additional material such as the popular stories of "Aladdin's Lamp", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor".

See further the entry in Wikipedia on One Thousand and One Nights.

The Arabian Nights by Hal Collier Edwards and F.H. Dudley
This was apparently a comedy, based on a German tragedy called Harun Alraschid by an unidentified author.

Performance history in South Africa
Performed in the Exhibition Theatre, Cape Town, by a company put together by a Mr Hisrchfield and the actor J.A. Rosier in June 1888.

Aladdin
There are a number of dramatised versions of this story, by local and international authors.

See Aladdin

An Arabian Night
A South African play, devised and performed by Janice Honeyman and cast

See An Arabian Night

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
There are numerous of dramatised versions of this story, by local and international authors.

See Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

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