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Bawdier than __The Canterbury Tales__, __The Fabliaux__ is the first major English translation of the most scandalous and irreverent poetry in Western literature.Composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, these virtually unknown erotic and satiric poems lie at the root of the Western comic tradition. Passed down by the anticlerical middle classes of medieval France, __The Fabliaux__ depicts priapic priests, randy wives, and their cuckolded husbands in tales that are shocking even by today's standards. Chaucer and Boccaccio borrowed heavily from these riotous tales, which were the wit of the common man rebelling against the aristocracy and Church in matters of food, money, and sex. Containing 69 poems with a parallel Old French text, __The Fabliaux__ comes to life in a way that has never been done in nearly eight hundred years.

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Author

Nathaniel E. Dubin

Publisher

Liveright; Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393240528

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Poetry

Rating

4.21 / 5 (49 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13