The Fabliaux: A New Verse Translation

by Luciano Rossi, Richard Straub, Jean Bodel

Book Overview

Composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, these virtually unknown erotic and satiric poems lie at the root of the Western comic tradition. Passed down by the anticlerical middle classes of medieval France, The Fabliaux depicts priapic priests, randy wives, and their cuckolded husbands in tales that are shocking even by today's standards. Chaucer and Boccaccio borrowed heavily from these riotous tales, which were the wit of the common...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871403579
• ISBN13: 9780871403575
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 1024 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 5.2" x 7.8"