As often happens, I get interested in the stories Shakespeare worked from and what he did with them. The basic story in Geoffrey of Monmouth is a very common folktale theme (sometimes the other sisters say that they love their father as much as they love honey, the younger one says she loves him like salt; she is banished, marries well, her father stays with her not knowing who she is and she serves him up a meal with no salt at all - at which point he realises how he has wronged her
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