Watch This! The Thousand and One Nights

http://learner.org/courses/worldlit/the-thousand-and-one-nights/watch/

This video gives a great overview of One Thousand and One Nights!


"This is a game of telephone that went on for 600 years, over thousands of storytellers."

"They're living tales"

"[These texts are] from all over the place."

"Some of the most famous stories today, were never there originally...now they appear in Arabic texts translated back from French...each version of One Thousand and One Nights is written by someone for some particular kind of audience."