Scandalous at the time of their creation in the Middle Ages, the old French comic tales in verse, commonly known as the fabliaux, can still shock you today with their outrageous obscenity, salacious humor, and carnivalesque laughter. Equally scandalous, if not more so, is the fact that these lyrical tales, as provocative as “The Plum in the Golden Vase,” the Kama Sutra, or Ovid’s “The Art of Love,” have remained virtually inaccessible for so long due to censorship by cultural and religious orthodoxy.
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