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What is a fabliau?

What is a fabliau? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A short, farcical, often coarse tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.
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Examples
Perhaps it was too close to a fabliau situation to guarantee a suitably elevated tone in live performance.
It is given by John of Bromyard, and is the subject of a fabliau which is given by Meon.
Related to the fable was the more bawdy fabliau, which covered topics such as cuckolding and corrupt clergy.
Three versions of the fabliau testify that Carados and his amie deposited the mantle in a Welsh abbey.
Jean Subrenat has produced important work in a number of areas, in particular on epic, romance, the Roman de Renart and fabliau, and religious literature.
The dramatic germ contained in the fabliau and quickened by the mystery produces the profane drama.

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