Fabliau

A fabliau is a brief tale, often little more than an anecdote, with a sharp sting at the end of it; frequently it was in rime; generally satiric in intent, it was full of frank gayety and of playful humor. ❋ Unknown (1907)

[FN#488] The fabliau is a favourite in the East; this is the third time it has occurred with minor modifications. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

The second lady's trick in the fabliau is a very close parallel to the story in The Nights, vol.v. p. 96. [ ❋ Anonymous (1855)

The Canterbury Tales I've written so far which chronicle the pilgrims' homeward journey are all in different genres, varying from fables to fabliau, and from crime fiction to chick lit; and since Coscom Entertainment offered me a chance at publication with 'The Monk's Second Tale', this became the horror Canterbury Tale'. ❋ Neth (2010)

A person whose penchant for ceding power to fellow plutocrats even less circumspect than himself might well, in this fabliau, have actually caused our present economic catastrophe. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And even these are not allowed to pall upon the mental palate, being mingled with anecdotes and short tales, such as the Hermits (iii. 125), with biographical or literary episodes, acroamata, table-talk and analects where humorous Rabelaisian anecdote finds a place; in fact the fabliau or novella. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It is related in the “Disciplina Clericalis” of Alphonsus (A.D. 1106); the fabliau of La vieille qui seduisit la jeune fille; the Gesta Romanorum (thirteenth century) and the ❋ Unknown (2006)

The minstrels have a fabliau of a daw with borrowed feathers — why, this Oliver is The very bird, and, by St. Dunstan, if he lets his chattering tongue run on at my expense, I will so pluck him as never hawk plumed a partridge. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Only I wish we have not got King Stork, instead of King Log, like the fabliau [fable] that the Clerk of Saint ❋ Unknown (2008)

Compare the following three texts — the previously-mentioned Passio sancti Pelagii by Hroswitha; Filius Getronis, a twelfth-century play of St. Nicholas from St. - Benoit-sur-Loire; and the tale of the snow child (a fabliau and several other retellings throughout the period). back ❋ Unknown (2005)

Even in the passage of the old fabliau of the “King and the Hermit” the latter, instead of admitting us to a cottage interior, has a servant to wait on him, brings out a tablecloth, lights two candles, and lays before his disguised guest venison and wine. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Restricting the article used as a criterion of chastity to a mantle, we find the elements of this ballad existing in French manuscripts of the thirteenth century (the romance called _Cort Mantel_); in a Norse translation of this ‘fabliau’; in the Icelandic _Mantle Rhymes_ of the fifteenth century; in the _Scalachronica_ of Sir Thomas Gray of Heton ❋ Frank Sidgwick (N/A)

This story of the basket became very popular; it was introduced into a well known French fabliau [33]; and Bulwer worked it, with slight changes, into his novel of "Pelham," where Monsieur Margot experiences the same sad reflections concerning the deceitfulness of woman, which had long before passed through the mind of Virgil. ❋ Bayard Tuckerman (N/A)

This is the form found in the thirteenth-century French fabliau "La Housse Partie;" and a variant of it is given by Ortensio Lando, an Italian novelist of the sixteenth century (Dunlop, 2: 206). ❋ Dean Spruill Fansler (N/A)

Romanorum, also the fabliau "Destourmi;" then five other fabliaux from ❋ Dean Spruill Fansler (N/A)

The only essential difference is that the opening of the Serbian tale is the well-known fabliau of the "Meadow that was mowed." ❋ Dean Spruill Fansler (N/A)

I know the fabliau of the 'Denier' ... and that of Gombert and dame Erme .... ❋ Jean Jules Jusserand (N/A)

-- Shipman's tale: story of a merchant of St. Denys, his wife, and a wicked monk, from some French fabliau, or from "Decameron," viii. ❋ Jean Jules Jusserand (N/A)

[750] This game is described in the (very coarse) fabliau of the ❋ Jean Jules Jusserand (N/A)

-- Reeve's tale, imitated from the French fabliau of ❋ Jean Jules Jusserand (N/A)