Chanticleer and the Fox it clear that its inspiration was Edmond Rostand's drama "Chantecler" about a cock that believed the sun would not rise unless it crowed first. Several other works claim to be inspired by Chaucer's tale but, like Rostand's play and the 1990 cartoon feature film Rock-a-Doodle based on it, have little connection with the original Renart Cycle version beyond using the name Chanticleer, or variants of it. Chanticleer and the Fox Chanticleer and the Fox is a fable that dates from the Middle Ages. Though it can be compared to Aesop's fable of The Fox and the Crow, it is of
The Cock and the Jasp The Cock and the Jasp "The Taill of the Cok and the Jasp" is a Middle Scots version of Aesop's Fable "The Cock and the Jewel" by the 15th-century Scottish poet Robert Henryson. It is the first in Henryson's collection known as the "Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian". "The Cok and the Jasp" is framed by a prologue and a "moralitas", and as the first poem in the collection it operates on a number of levels, and in all its parts, to introduce the larger cycle. Although the Aesopian tale of "The Cock and the Jewel", which Henryson re-tells,