Swapped children

[amarna]

For an essay I've to write I need some help. I'm looking for swapped-as-child-themes in classic literature, best before 1820. I only know references in Comedy of Errors, and in Henry IV, but I'm sure there must be more. Help's really appreciated...

[billl]

does it have to be an even, kid-for-kid, swap?

[amarna]

Yes, a kid-for-kid swap. No kid-to-mandrake or something like that. :)

[billl]

I thought I remembered Mark Twain had done something like that, so I checked and found Pudd'nhead Wilson. I never read it myself, but it has a slave woman switching her kid for the white family's newborn son. 1894 publication date, however.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudd%27n%27head_Wilson

[alexar]

- maybe you remembered Twain's 'The Prince and the Pauper'?

[billl]

yeah, that's what i was thinking i might've been thinking, alexar.

[amarna]

Thematically it would fit, but Twain is too late.

[amarna]

Thanks for helping, folks.

I took the novel "Joseph Andrews" by Fielding then.