• A fabliau (French pronunciation: [fabljo]; plural fabliaux) is a comic, often anonymous tale written by jongleurs in northeast France between c. 1150...
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    Larry Benson remarks: The central episode of the Merchant's Tale is like a fabliau, though of a very unusual sort: It is cast in the high style, and some...
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  • "Fabliau of Florida" is a poem in Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. Fabliau of Florida  Barque of phosphor  On the palmy beach,  Move...
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    television series Premise Types of fiction with multiple endings Form Drama Fabliau Flash fiction Folklore Fable Fairy tale Legend Myth Tall tale Gamebook...
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    Ysengrimus is a Latin fabliau and mock epic, containing a series of anthropomorphic fables thought to have been written in 1148 or 1149 CE by the poet...
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    century. Boccaccio could have possibly also taken the tale from a French fabliau, "L'Evesque qui benit sa maitresse" ("The bishop who blesses his mistress")...
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    tale that mocks the Miller's profession. The tale is based on a popular fabliau (also the source of the Sixth Story of the Ninth Day of The Decameron)...
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  • Elegiac comedy (redirect from Latin fabliau)
    Elegiac comedy was a genre of medieval Latin literature—or drama—represented by about twenty texts written in the 12th and 13th centuries in the liberal...
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  • cunts speak" (French: "Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons") is a French fabliau. Seven versions of it remain, including one in MS Harley 2253 (a manuscript...
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    genre, except such as were manifestly unsuited to his profession, like the fabliau. In the Troy Book (30,117 lines), an amplified translation of the Trojan...
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  • an early theme in French literature, most notably in the 13th-century fabliau Le Chevalier qui faisoit parler les cons et les culs, and in Les bijoux...
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    or heritage of classical mythology, but is instead a rollicking, bawdy fabliau, and designed to annoy the Knight and amuse the other pilgrims with its...
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