The fabliaux are filled with puns, clever rhyme schemes, dirty words and double entendres.
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"The fabliaux are similar in many ways to soaps, " says Mr. Dubin.
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They inspired Geoffrey Chaucer, whose "Canterbury Tales" contain five fabliaux, and Giovanni Boccaccio's "Decameron" draws on them as well, says Yale University French professor R.