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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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Three versions of the fabliau testify that Carados and his amie deposited the mantle in a Welsh abbey.
Related to the fable was the more bawdy fabliau, which covered topics such as cuckolding and corrupt clergy.
The special period of fabliau composition appears to have been the 12th and 13th centuries.
The dramatic germ contained in the fabliau and quickened by the mystery produces the profane drama.
But there is nothing in previous literature which exactly corresponds to the fabliau.
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.

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