In some versions of the tale, the giant is unnamed, but many plays based on it name him Blunderbore (one giant of that name appears in the 18th-century tale ' Jack the Giant Killer'). According to researchers at Durham University and the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the tale type (AT 328, The Boy Steals Ogre's Treasure) to which the Jack story belongs may have had a Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) origin (the same tale also has Proto-Indo-Iranian variants), and so some think that the story would have originated millennia ago (4500 BC to 2500 BC). In 1807, English writer Benjamin Tabart published The History of Jack and the Bean Stalk, possibly actually edited by William and/or Mary Jane Godwin. Roberts in the 1734 second edition of Round About Our Coal-Fire. 'The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean' was published in London by J. In Walter Crane's woodcut the harp reaches out to cling to the vine Īccording to researchers at Durham University and Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the story originated more than five millennia ago, based on a wide-spread archaic story form which is now classified by folklorists as ATU 328 The Boy Who Stole Ogre's Treasure.

'Jack and the Beanstalk' is the best known of the ' Jack tales', a series of stories featuring the archetypal Cornish and English hero and stock character Jack. Jacobs' version is most commonly reprinted today, and is believed to be closer to the oral versions than Tabart's because it lacks the moralizing. Henry Cole, publishing under pen name Felix Summerly, popularized the tale in The Home Treasury (1845), and Joseph Jacobs rewrote it in English Fairy Tales (1890). It appeared as ' The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean' in 1734 and as Benjamin Tabart's moralized ' The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk' in 1807. ' Jack and the Beanstalk' is an English fairy tale.

Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy Tales (1890) Illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1918, in English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steelīenjamin Tabart, The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk (1807)

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