Middle English Fabliaux and Modern Myth
- Author / Editor
- Furrow, Melissa (M.)
Middle English Fabliaux and Modern Myth
- Published
- ELH 56 (1989): 1-18.
- Description
- The rare pre-Chaucerian fabliaux in English display affinities with exempla, drama, and inverted romance. Critics have long pondered why no fabliau tradition in English exists; they hypothesize scribal prudery or loss of many texts. Considering the appearance after Chaucer of scatological but traditionally moral tales in English, Furrow suggests the term "bourd" for these antiromantic stories.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.