By Aesop,Juan Ruiz,Peter Speed
Part I surveys the Spanish culture. The “Oriental anthologies” comprise Calila and Dimna and Sendebar — Spanish models of the body tales of India, Persia, and the Muslim international popularized in one thousand and One Nights. The medieval exempla comprise The ebook of Cats, The booklet of Exempla A.B.C., the reflect of the Laity, Juan Ruiz’s Libro de Buen Amor, plus such later anthologies because the Seven Sages of Rome and the existence and Fables of Aesop.
Part II deals a consultant choice of 16 French fabliaux, starting from the sexual conflict of such recognized tales because the Goodwife of Orleans to the wily people knowledge of The Peasant Who Argued His approach into Paradise.
Part III offers English tales that set the degree for Elizabethan comedy, together with a sampling of funny ballads from the later heart a while, and a range from 100 Mery Talys, a sixteenth-century comic story book.
Speed Edits those stories with all of the tough edges, ribald humor, and unapologetic earthiness in their time and position. the following the reader will become aware of tales that remember Aesop, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Molière, as vixen and wolf, monk and priest, service provider and shopkeeper, lord of the manor and courtly woman, all salary sexual and social, ethical, spiritual and fiscal battles of wit, chicanery, and — occasionally — loyalty and faith.
79 stories. contains advent, Bibliography, Illustrations.
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