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fabliau

Form of humorous verse tale composed mainly in northeastern France during the 13th century. About 150 fabliaux survive, varying in length from 18 to over 1,300 lines. Mostly anonymous, they were often written by jongleurs who recited them wherever they could find patronage; some, however, are by well-known poets such as Rutebeuf. Spiced with sharp, frequently bawdy, but seldom satirical humour, the fabliaux depict everyday life among all classes.

Though the genre had died out by 1350, many stories were adapted by Boccaccio, Chaucer, La Fontaine, and Guy de Maupassant, among others.

fabliau

Troubadour ballad with narrative words, distinct from the love songs sung by the troubadours.



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She discusses his belief that three medieval forms: the epic, the fabliau and the Arthurian cycles came from three different traditions.
The second part of the book is entitled "the stories (cuentos) inserted in the treatises on magic," but before dealing with the stories themselves Zamora Calvo discusses at some length the terminology for story--cuento, fabliella, estoria, novella, and so on--and defines the categories exempla, nova, lai, fabliau, myth, miracle, and novellae.
In pardoning the knights and constructing the amphitheater, Theseus experiences (and the Knight narrator indulges in) a manner of wish-fulfillment, of the kind we observe in the French fabliau of the Butcher of Abbeville and in the Friar's exemplum of the widow and the summoner.
 
 
 
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