The Forest[1] was loosely based upon the writings and exploits of Jim Corbett and uses the tale of a man-eating leopard to address environmental concerns.
Poole studied scroll painting in China, and she uses the tale as a vehicle for her illustration medium, paintings on rice paper.
A decade later Thomas Yalden uses the tale for political propaganda in his Aesop at Court (1702).
I used the first tale, which is the source of the others, and which Potocki uses to close the circle at the end.
The Summoner uses the tale to satirise friars in general, with their long sermonising and their tendency to live well despite vows of poverty.
The prospect fled in a sweat, and she used the tale to remind instructors to teach, not show off.
Using the tale of the financial tape, baseball's chosen few who gathered here for the All-Star Game tonight were not measured by their salaries.
In the musical revue Pins and Needles, a song entitled "Mene, Mene, Tekel" uses the tale as allegory describing contemporary social injustices.
From the 30th of April 2013 a new show will be presented still using the original tale.
He used the tale of the angry and vengeful Djinn whose invisible child had been killed by a thrown date stone as an example of pure chance or fate.