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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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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.
Perhaps it was too close to a fabliau situation to guarantee a suitably elevated tone in live performance.
But there is nothing in previous literature which exactly corresponds to the fabliau.
The special period of fabliau composition appears to have been the 12th and 13th centuries.
Three versions of the fabliau testify that Carados and his amie deposited the mantle in a Welsh abbey.
It is given by John of Bromyard, and is the subject of a fabliau which is given by Meon.

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