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...Glending Olson Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 THE REEVE’S TALE AS A FABLIAU By GLENDINGOLSON Most recent commentators on the Reeve’s Tale focus on a number of its darkest aspects and connect it intimately with its...

... ro- mance and fabliau (seemingly contradictory though they may be), or a representation of and response to fourteenth-century English culture, the Merchant's Tale challenges its society's literary and cultural assumptions, demonstrating both their life-denying effect on men and women...

.... Chapter I11 treats the seven tales written in the style of the French fabliau. Technically they are, as Lawrence tells US, among Chaucer’s most brilliant performances. Good as this chapter is, I think that there is still room for some one to tell us what Chaucer really learned from...

...John A. Yunck Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 MEDIEVAL FRENCH MONEY SATIRE By JOHN A. YUNCK “Ge sai le flabel de Denier,” says one of the jongleurs in the fabliau of the Dew bordeors ribaus, when he is detailing his repertory...

... Society of Knight, Parson, and Plowman. The Merchant’s Tale is crammed with four discordant elements: a rhetorical debate on marriage, a courtly romance centering in the Garden, a mythical fantasy of Pluto and Proserpina, and a raucous fabliau ending. The Chaucerian narrator holds...

... the idea of carnival, those periods of subversion and mockery that allow both the expression of rebellious desire and its containment in a delimited playtime. She uses Freud in great part to psychologize Bakhtin’s model: carnival time-and, by extension, the fabliau fictions that inhabit...

... to the unities. The first scene is preoccupied with a familiar problem of Elizabethan dramatists : getting the audience’s attention, and doing a good job of it, with rapid give-and- take repartee and badinage, fabliau-like dispute and farcical situation ( Piscatot gets Viator to lie on his belly...

..., See ’em go pinion’d along by my door. rency of the fabliau upon which both The Jew of Malta and The Captives drew makes it extremely doubtful that Heywood was responsible for the friar scenes in The Jew of MaZta. (12) Margaret Thimme, “Marlowe’s ‘Jew of Malta,’ Stil- und Echtheits...

... to give the audience a clue toward the function of Absolon in the fabliau-he ivas to he the comic character, just as Herod is treated in the mystery plays as the performer of buffoonery, spectacle, atid tliaholical action. A great amount of care is lavished by 6 See Joseph Qriincy Adams...

... kind here as well, one closely related to that of the fabliaux, with their easy tolerance for- and connivance in -immoral behavior. Jean de Meun has, it is true, given a new-a learned and theological- dimension to these old traditions of romance and fabliau, but it remains unclear, to me...

... purposes. One of the more comic passages in Le MCdecin mulgrt lui, based on the Vilain Mire fabliau, is that in which Sganarelle is mercilessly cudgeled until he admits to being a doctor (1.v). The farcical effect is analogous in Les Fourberies de Scapin, where the valet Scapin beats his...

... placed higher in the hierarchy of society, and brings him to tell a fabliau of arms, blood, and bones and to regard it as quitting the Knight’s epic. Finally, his is the avarice embodied in his stealing from his clients to win for himself a golden thumb. The Miller’s Tale is his tale; he...

... tell “his cherles tale in his manere,” and they had known the worst he could do before he began. But they were troubled by the Pardoner’s duplicity: alto- gether too visible on the one hand, and on the other a quite unknown quantity. If the inevitable fabliau came from the visible side...

...” in “Fabliau of Florida” (CP, p. 23), but it is again the “tlroriirig of the surf” which suggests the eternal, restless process of formation and dissolution that underlies and eventually un- dermines all imaginative constructs. It is worth pointing out here that the exoticism of the word “barque...

... in hell of “herpeor et jogleor” in this section brings to mind the fabliau of “Saint Pierre et le jongleur,” where a trouba- dour behaved so badly in hell that no more were admitted and all had to go to heaven. But the exact import of this episode is difficult to measure, for the subjunctive...

...;fe of Bath’s Tale, Clerk’s Tale, Merchant ’sTale, and Franklin’s Tale, the shadow of his influence is a long one. And it is particularly keenly felt in perceptions about the Merchant’s character. He has this to say: The simple fabliau devised by its first author merely to make...

... arouses a fierce, puritanical temper which is alien to the sophistication of Sidney’s romance. How harsh of Davis to call Gynecia, whose virtuous life is marred only by her unfortunate love for Pyrocles, “the harried whore” (p. 79). In Sidney’s delightful fabliau, the young wife who deceives her...

... for hiding the rebuffed Falstaff invoke and invert the traditions of fabliau and novella. Their buck basket conceals not an ardent lover but a ridiculous suitor abundantly punished by his immersion in bourgeois dirty linen and a muddy ditch. Helgerson’s reading...

... and invert the traditions of fabliau and novella. Their buck basket conceals not an ardent lover but a ridiculous suitor abundantly punished by his immersion in bourgeois dirty linen and a muddy ditch. Helgerson’s reading of the second device is more forced...

... and invert the traditions of fabliau and novella. Their buck basket conceals not an ardent lover but a ridiculous suitor abundantly punished by his immersion in bourgeois dirty linen and a muddy ditch. Helgerson’s reading of the second device is more forced...