The Fabliaux
- Author / Editor
- Brewer, Derek S.
The Fabliaux
- Published
- Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 296-325.
- Description
- The advance of the fabliaux in critical estimation is perhaps the major development of twentieth-century Chaucer studies. The fabliau--an "upper"-class genre ridiculing the buffoneries of the "lower" classes and clergy--flourished in thirteenth-century France but was moribund by the time Chaucer resurrected and refined it in England.
- Reprinted from the first (1968) edition, with updated bibliography.
- Alternative Title
- Companion to Chaucer Studies.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.