Category:Androcles (subject)

Androcles is a fictitious character, created by Bernard Shaw in 1912. He is a fugitive Christian slave who was delivered to the beasts in the arena and spared by a lion whose wounds he had healed in the wilderness.

Overview

The story of Androcles as a (1st cent.?) fugitive slave spared by the lion in the arena is told by Aulus Gellius (and by Pliny the Elder). Ever since it was retold with uncountable variants during the Middle Ages up to modern times.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Louis Feuillade and Bernard Shaw gave a "Christian" twist to the narrative. Androcles was now a slave because of his Christianity, and the incident was located in a time of religious persecution, in the 1st century under Emperor Nero according to Feuillade and in the 2nd century under Emperor Antoninus Pius according to Shaw.

Adaptations

• Androcles and the Lion (1912 Feuillade), feature film
• Androcles and the Lion (1912 Shaw), play
• Androcles and the Lion (1938 Davis / @1912 Shaw), TV film (play)
• Androcles and the Lion (1946 Davis / @1912 Shaw), TV film (play)
• Androcles and the Lion (1948 / @1912 Shaw), TV film (children's play)
• Androcles and the Lion (1951 Davis / @1912 Shaw), TV film (play)
• Androcles and the Lion (1952 Erskine, Ray / @1912 Shaw), feature film
• Androcles and the Lion (1956 / @1912 Shaw), TV film (play)
• Androcles and the Lion (1960 / @1912 Shaw), TV mini-series
• Androcles and the Lion (1967 Layton / @1912 Shaw), TV film (play)
• Androcles and the Lion (1983 / @1912 Shaw), TV film (play)

External links

• Wiki.en