Sherezade is a character from the collection of tales called "One Thousand and One Nights ". The story of Sherezade or "Scheherazade" begins when the king Shahryar found out one day that his first wife had been unfaithful to him. He resolved to kill her and marry a new virgin each day as well as behead the previous day's wife, so that she would have no chance to be unfaithful to him. He had killed many women, so Sherezade, the vizier's daughter, resolved to finish with this situation.
Against her father's wishes, Sherezade volunteered to spend one night with the king. Once in the king's chambers, Sherezade asked if she might bid one last farewell to her beloved sister, Dunyazade, who had secretly been prepared to ask Sherezade to tell a story during the long night. The king lay awake and listened with awe as Sherezade told her first story. The night passed by, and the tale was in the middle. The king asked her to finish, but Sherezade said there was no time, as dawn was breaking. So, the king spared her life for one day to finish the story the next night. The following night, Sherezade finished the story and then began a second, even more exciting tale, which she again stopped halfway through at dawn. Again, the king spared her life for one more day so she could finish the second story.
And so the king kept Sherezade alive day by day, as he eagerly anticipated the finishing of the previous night's story. At the end of 1,001 nights, and 1,000 stories, Sherezade told the king that she had no more tales to tell him. During these 1,001 nights, the king had fallen in love with her. He spared her life, and made Sherezade his queen.
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