The Aesopic Fable

The Aesopic Fable Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• The British Aesopic Fable
  • Introduction
  • Fables of Power: The Sixteenth Century
  • Scholastic Commentary and Robert Henryson's Morall Fabillis: The Aesopic Fables
  • Aesopian Examples: The English Fable Collection and its Authors, 1651-1740
• The Aesopic Tradition Innon-English-Speakingcultures
  • The Latin Aesop of Ermolao Barbaro
  • Reconstruction and Deconstruction: La Fontaine, Aesop and the Eighteenth-Century French Fabulist
  • Introduction
• Political Uses Of Theaesopic Fable
  • The Fable Is Inverted: 1628-1700
  • A New Parliament of Birds: Aesop, Fiction, and Jacobite Rhetoric
• The Evolution Of The Aesopic Fable
  • Introduction
  • Medieval Beasts and Modern Cages: The Making of Meaning in Fables and Bestiaries
• Further Reading