Cleomadés and the Marvellous Flying Wooden Horse

A translation into English of Albert Henry’s definitive edition of Adenet le Roi’s Cleomadés, a story based on a tale from The One Thousand and One Nights.Palace and pageantry, music and feast contribute to the poetic beauty of the tale, in which the hero Cleomadés and his sweetheart Clarmondine share love of an intensity evoking that of Layla and Majnun, of Isolde and Tristan, of Guinevere and Lancelot. When adventures with a mechanical flying horse separate them disastrously, the lovers undert