Joseph and Potiphar's wife in world literature
Subtitle: an anthology of the story of the chaste youth and the lustful stepmother.
By: Translated by various hands and edited with commentary by John D. Yohannan.
Series: A New Directions book
Publisher: New Directions Pub. Corp.
Published: 1968
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Potiphar's wife (Biblical figure) -- Literary collections.; Joseph (Son of Jacob) -- Literary collections.; Literature -- Collections.; Adultery.
Genres: Literary collections.; Collections.
Notes: "Bibliographical notes": p. 305-310.
Table of contents: title: Prologue in the ancient Near East; the archetypal folktale: "Anpu and Bata" (Egyptian).; title: Biblical narrative: Genesis 39 (Hebrew).; title: Classical drama: The Hippolytus of Euripides (Greek) The Phèdre of Jean Racine (French) The Phaedra of Kenneth Rexroth (American).; title: Moslem parable: "Yusuf," Chapter XII, Koran (Arabic) Yusuf and Zulaikha, a verse-novel, by Jami (Persian) "Potiphar's Wife," a poem by Sir Edwin Arnold (English).; title: Buddhist homily: "The eyes of Kunala," a moral tale (Indian) Gappo and his daughter Tsuji, a puppet play by Suga Sensuke (Japanese).; title: Medieval epic and fabliau: "Siyawush and Sudaba," from Firdausi's Shahnamah (Iranian) From the Book of the wiles of women; the frame story  (Spanish).; title: Epilogue in twentieth century Europe: Thomas Mann's "Joseph" novels (German)