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
Reynard the Fox a highly sophisticated development of Reynardian material as part of his "Morall Fabillis" in the sections known as "The Talking of the Tod". Hans van Ghetelen, a printer of Incunabula in Lübeck printed an early German version called "Reinke de Vos" in 1498. It was translated to Latin and other languages, which made the tale popular across Europe. Reynard is also referenced in the Middle English poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" during the third hunt. Tybalt in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is named after the cat in Reynard the Fox (and is called 'Prince of Cats' by Mercutio