Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. List of Abbreviations viii
5. Introduction ix
6. 1. The Genre and Its History 1
7. 2. The Didacticism of the Fabliau 19
8. 3. Deception and Misdeed: The Morphology of the Fabliau 37
9. 4. Victims and Dupers: The Fabliau Dynamic 71
10. 5. Irony as Trope and Myth in the Fabliau 93
11. 6. A Tale of the People: Conclusions on the Fabliau Ethos 109
12. Appendix A 121
13. Appendix B 125
14. Appendix C 129
15. Appendix D 133
16. Notes 143
17. Bibliography 155