History Literature / Donkeyskin

** Not even the king, in many versions of the story. [[spoiler: He's forgiven at the very end, and even finally remarries a beautiful widow queen.]] This is not necessarily true in adaptations, since attempted ParentalIncest makes a character pretty unsympathetic to modern audiences.
** Some adaptions choose to stress the fact that he is bound by his wife's death-bed promise.
*** Inverted in a primitive version called ''Doralice'' by Giovanni Francesco Straparola, the titular princess run away from her father king Thibaud who wanted to marry her. When he learned she finally married king of England Genese, Thibaud hide in the castle and kill his [[OffingTheOffspring grandchildren]]. He let Doralice be accused of the crime and be condemned to death by scaphism. Fortunately, Doralice's nurse testimonies for her and it's Thibaud who ends up dismembered. Let's say this version of the king was a bona fide villain.

The Aarne-Thompson Number is type 510B, the "unnatural love" type of the "persecuted heroine". Others of this type include "Literature/{{Catskin}}", "Literature/CapORushes" and "Literature/{{Tattercoats}}", which elide the incestous aspects. Compare to ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'', a persecuted heroine whose nemesis is female, and so is type 510A. See also ''Literature/TheOneHandedGirl'' for a different tale type with a male persecutor.

''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/index.html Donkeyskin]]'' is a popular FairyTale transcribed by Creator/CharlesPerrault in 1697. Creator/TheBrothersGrimm recorded another variant -- "All-Kind-of-Furs" -- in 1812, and the tale type has been adapted as "Sapsorrow" in ''Series/TheStoryteller'', ''Literature/{{Deerskin}}'' by Creator/RobinMcKinley, and in 1970 adapted as a [[TheMusical musical]] by Creator/JacquesDemy, among other adaptations.

Full text [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/index.html here]], along with [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/other.html many of its variants]].

* SheCleansUpNicely: Each night the princess cleans her face and puts on her dresses. The usual Cinderella version is played with as the prince initially doesn't recognise her when she takes him the soup (and really you wouldn't expect a supposed noblewoman you were dancing with to be serving you food the next day) but he does by the third time.

*** Inverted in a primitive version called ''Doralice'' by Giovanni Francesco Straparola, the titular princess run away from her father king Thibaud who wanted to marry her. When he learned she finally married king of England Genese, Thibaud hide in the castle and kill his [[OffingTheOffspring grandchildren]]. He let Doralice be accused of the crime and be condemned to death by scaphism. Fortunately, Doralice 's nurse testimony for her and it's Thibaud who end up dismembered. Let's say this version of the king was a bona fide villain.

* RunawayFiance: Donkeyskin flees so that she is not forced to marry her own father.

* RunawayFiancée: Donkeyskin flees so that she is not forced to marry her own father.

* RunawayFiance: Donkeyskin flees so that she is not forced to marry her own father.

* PrettyInMink: Subverted. She wears the fur coat when she's working as a servant. She's also initially mistaken for an animal by the palace soldiers.

[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/index.html "Donkeyskin"]] is a popular FairyTale transcribed by Creator/CharlesPerrault in 1697. Creator/TheBrothersGrimm recorded another variant -- "All-Kind-of-Furs" -- in 1812, and the tale type has been adapted as "Sapsorrow" in ''Series/TheStoryteller'', ''Literature/{{Deerskin}}'' by Creator/RobinMcKinley, and in 1970 adapted as a [[TheMusical musical]] by Creator/JacquesDemy, among other adaptations.

* TheGenieKnowsJackNicholson: The Lilac Fairy gave the king books by poets of the future. The kings read poems by Creator/JeanCocteau and Guillaume Apollinaire.

* SchizoTech: The king and the Lilac Fairy come to the wedding ceremony in a Alouette II helicopter.

!!The 1970 film by Jacques Demy provides examples of:
* TheGenieKnowsJackNicholson: The Lilac Fairy gave the king books by poets of the future. The kings read poems by Jean Cocteau and Guillaume Apollinaire.

* ParentalIncest: The king falls in love with her daughter and wants to marry her.

%% * KingIncognito: The princess.
%% * PrinceCharming

%% * TheGirlWhoFitsThisSlipper

[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/index.html "Donkeyskin"]] is a popular FairyTale transcribed by Creator/CharlesPerrault in 1697. Creator/TheBrothersGrimm recorded another variant -- "All-Kind-of-Furs" -- in 1812, and the tale type has been adapted as "Sapsorrow" in ''Series/TheStoryteller'', ''Literature/{{Deerskin}}'' by Creator/RobinMcKinley, and in 1970 adapted as a [[TheMusical musical]] by Jacques Demy, among other adaptations.

*** Inverted in a primitive version called ''Doralice'' by Giovanni Francesco Straparola, the titular princess run away from her father king Thibaud who wanted to marry her. When he learned she finally married king of England Genese, Thibaud hide in the castle and kill his [[OffingTheOffspring grandchildren]]. He let Doralice be accused of the crime and be condemned to death by scaphism. Fortunately, Doralice 's nurse testimony for her and it's Thibaud who end up dismembered. Let's say this version of the king [[CompleteMonster was a bona fide villain.]]

*** In a primitive version called ''Doralice'' by Giovanni Francesco Straparola, the titular princess run away from her father king Thibaud who wanted to marry her. When he learned she finally married king of England Genese, Thibaud hide in the castle and kill his [[OffingTheOffspring grandchildren]]. He let Doralice be accused of the crime and be condemned to death by scaphism. Fortunately, Doralice 's nurse testimony for her and it's Thibaud who end up dismembered. Let's say this version of the king [[CompleteMonster was a bona fide villain.]]

*** In a primitive version called ''Doralice'' by Giovanni Francesco Straparola, the titular princess run away from her father king Thibaud who wanted to married her. When he learned she finally married king of England Genese, Thibaud hide in the castle and kill his [[OffingTheOffspring grandchildren]]. He let Doralice be accused of the crime and be condemned to death by scaphism. Fortunately, Doralice 's nurse testimony for her and it's Thibaud who end up dismembered. Let's say this version of the king [[CompleteMonster was a bona fide villain.]]

*** In a primitive version called ''Doralice'' by Giovanni Francesco Straparola, the titular princess run away from her father king Thibaud who wanted to married her. When he learned she finally married king of England Genese, Thibaud hide in the castle and ''kill his [[OffingTheOffspring grandchildren'']]. He let Doralice be accused of the crime and be condemned to death by scaphism. Fortunately, Doralice 's nurse testimony for her and it's Thibaud who end up dismembered. Let's say this version of the king [[CompleteMonster was a bona fide villain.]]

*** In a primitive version called ''Doralice'' by Giovanni Francesco Straparola, the titular princess run away from her father king Thibaud who wanted to married her. When he learned she finally married king of England Genese, Thibaud hide in the castle and [[OffingTheOffspring ''kill his grandchildren'']]. He let Doralice be accused of the crime and be condemned to death by scaphism. Fortunately, Doralice 's nurse testimony for her and it's Thibaud who end up dismembered. Let's say this version of the king [[CompleteMonster was a bona fide villain.]]

*** In a primitive version called ''Doralice'' by Giovanni Francesco Straparola, the titular princess run away from her father King Thibaud who wanted to married her. When he learned she finally married King of England Genese, Thibaud hide in the castle and [[OffingTheOffspring''kill his grandchildren'']]. He let Doralice be accused of the crime and be condemned to death by scaphism. Fortunately, Doralice 's nurse testimony for her and it's Thibaud who end up dismembered. Let's say this version of the king [[CompleteMonster was a bona fide villain.]]