When that doesn't work, her father, the Grand Vizier, blesses her attempt at marriage to King Shahryar.
Her father tries to dissuade her from her intended course by telling her a story about a merchant who understood animals. Among those animals is a cock, which persuades the merchant to beat his wife as an example of the family discipline with which her father threatens her. When that doesn't work, her father, the Grand Vizier, blesses her attempt at marriage to King Shahryar. For ten points, name this woman, a framing device for a collection of stories translated by Sir Richard Burton.
Her father tries to dissuade her from her intended course by telling her a story about a merchant who understood animals.
Scheherazade