Sir Orfeo is a magical confection, a medieval resetting of the classic tale of Orpheus and Euridyce as the quest of King Orfeo to reclaim his wife Lady Heurodis from the realm of the King of Faery. The story is preserved in three Middle English manuscripts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, based on a lost Breton lyric lay, and in the Shetlandic folk-ballad King Orfeo.
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martedì 7 febbraio 2012
Sir Orfeo
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