... the use of the fabliau and bawdy humor. One might sat that this isn't a great contribution but I'd have to disagree, as Chaucer was the very first to introduce the French fabliaux, "the short, comic, frankly coarse, and often cynical take in verse- (Ross, 18). The Wife of Bath Tale is a fabliau, she has the vigor of the fabliau women, "ful of ... ...

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