"The cuckoldings, beatings, and elaborate practical jokes that are the main concern of the fabliaux are distributed in accord with a code of "fabliau justice," which does not always coincide with conventional morality: greed, hypocrisy, and pride are invariably punished, but so too are old age, mere slow-wittedness,
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The term denotes a medieval literary genre: a short, ribald tale in verse with stock characters, realistic details, sexual transgressions, obscenity, scatology, and a clever plot mocking human weaknesses and making cynical fun of conventional notions of morality, authority, and poetic justice. ... The fabliau has died out,
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The cuckoldings, beatings, and elaborate practical jokes that are the main concern of the fabliaux are distributed in accord with a code of "fabliau justice ...
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fabliau justice peculiar to the French poems is replaced by some- thing a step closer to orthodox morality. In the French fabliaux, and ...
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of fabliau justice. In the complex network of genres within the Canterbury Tales, the. Knight's Tale forms a reverse pair with the Miller's Tale. ...
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If we recognise the justice of “The Miller’s Tale” as being that special brand of fabliau justice, “The Reeve’s Tale” tale instead provides poetic justice. The bold and thieving Simpkin, unlike the scally-wag lover, Nicholas the Gallant, gets precisely what he deserves.
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"A Priest's Worst (K)nightmare: Fabliau Justice in Le Prestre et le Chevalier," French Forum , 25.2 (2000), 137-44. "Narration and Textual Grammar in the ...
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Mar 8, 1996 ... -Corsa (1964): Chaucer as poet of mirth and morality; fabliaux concerned with justice of several kinds -Ruggiers (1965): Chaucer more and ...
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8. The victim of the fabliau trick, called the dupe, is humiliated and sometimes even severely injured at the end of the tale. However, it is my contention that the liminal social standing of the dupe prepares the audience for his fall and, in terms of "fabliau justice," is deserved.
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