Although there was no lack of rhetoricians to dictate the correct use of literary figures, no attempt was made to derive critical principles from emergent genres such as the fabliau and the chivalric romance. |
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Perhaps it was too close to a fabliau situation to guarantee a suitably elevated tone in live performance. |
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Related to the fable was the more bawdy fabliau, which covered topics such as cuckolding and corrupt clergy. |
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Jean Subrenat has produced important work in a number of areas, in particular on epic, romance, the Roman de Renart and fabliau, and religious literature. |
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