Fabliaux - Revision history

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	* [http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/litsubs/fabliaux/ The Fabliaux] (part of a Geoffrey Chaucer page)		* [http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/litsubs/fabliaux/ The Fabliaux] (part of a Geoffrey Chaucer page)
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	The ~~Fabliau~~ (plural ~~Fabliaux~~) appears to be a parody of the fable. They were popular in [[France]] around the [[13th Century]]. They are generally bawdy in nature, and several of them were reworked by [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] for his [[Canterbury Tales]]. All but one of the fabliaux are in octosyllabic rhyming couplets. Some 150 fabilaux survive to this day, though the exact number depends on how narrowly ''fabliau'' is defined.		The '''fabliau''' (plural fabliaux) appears to be a parody of the [[fable]]. They were popular in [[France]] around the [[13th Century]]. They are generally bawdy in nature, and several of them were reworked by [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] for his [[Canterbury Tales]]. All but one of the fabliaux are in octosyllabic rhyming couplets. Some 150 fabilaux survive to this day, though the exact number depends on how narrowly ''fabliau'' is defined.

	Typical topics for fabliaux are cuckolded husbands, rapacious clergy and foolish peasants. The status of peasants appears to vary based on the audience that the fabliau was being written for. Poems that were presumably written for the nobility portray peasants (''vilains'' in [[French]]) as stupid and vile, whereas those written for the lower classes often tell of peasants getting the better of the clergy.		Typical topics for fabliaux are cuckolded husbands, rapacious clergy and foolish peasants. The status of peasants appears to vary based on the audience that the fabliau was being written for. Poems that were presumably written for the nobility portray peasants (''vilains'' in [[French]]) as stupid and vile, whereas those written for the lower classes often tell of peasants getting the better of the clergy.
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	====External Links====		====External Links====

	* [[http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/litsubs/fabliaux/ The Fabliaux]] (part of a Geoffrey Chaucer page)		* [http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/litsubs/fabliaux/ The Fabliaux] (part of a Geoffrey Chaucer page)

Conrad Leviston at 11:44, 11 November 2003

2003-11-11T11:44:40Z

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The Fabliau (plural Fabliaux) appears to be a parody of the fable. They were popular in [[France]] around the [[13th Century]]. They are generally bawdy in nature, and several of them were reworked by [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] for his [[Canterbury Tales]]. All but one of the fabliaux are in octosyllabic rhyming couplets. Some 150 fabilaux survive to this day, though the exact number depends on how narrowly ''fabliau'' is defined.

Typical topics for fabliaux are cuckolded husbands, rapacious clergy and foolish peasants. The status of peasants appears to vary based on the audience that the fabliau was being written for. Poems that were presumably written for the nobility portray peasants (''vilains'' in [[French]]) as stupid and vile, whereas those written for the lower classes often tell of peasants getting the better of the clergy.

====External Links====

* [[http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/litsubs/fabliaux/ The Fabliaux]] (part of a Geoffrey Chaucer page)