page_title: Reynard the Fox
section_title: 20th- and 21st-century literature
hierarchical_section_title: Reynard the Fox / Modern treatment / 20th- and 21st-century literature
caption_attribution_description: Titel des Buches „Reineke Fuchs“, Ein heiteres Kinderbuch
context_page_description: Reynard the Fox is a literary cycle of medieval allegorical Dutch, English, French and German fables. The first extant versions of the cycle date from the second half of the 12th century. The genre is very popular throughout the Late Middle Ages, and in chapbook form throughout the Early Modern period.
  The stories are largely concerned with the main character Reynard, an anthropomorphic red fox and trickster figure. His adventures usually involve him deceiving other anthropomorphic animals for his own advantage or trying to avoid their retaliatory efforts. His main enemy and victim across the cycle is his uncle, the wolf Isengrim.
  While the character of Reynard appears in later works, the core stories were written during the Middle Ages by multiple authors and are often seen as parodies of medieval literature such as courtly love stories and chansons de geste, as well as a satire of political and religious institutions.
context_section_description: Fedor Flinzer illustrated Reineke Fuchs (Reynard the Fox) for children.
  French artist Rémy Lejeune (Ladoré) illustrated Les Aventures de Maître Renart et d'Ysengrin son compère, "Bibliolâtres de France" editions (1960)
  British poet laureate John Masefield's poem "Reynard the Fox" (1920) concerns a fox hunt that pursues the title character, who "could outlast horse and outrace hound."
  Louis Paul Boon's novel Wapenbroeders (Brothers in Arms, 1955) is an extensive reworking of the whole tale.
  Reynard the Fox makes a short but significant appearance at the end of The Magician King, when he is accidentally summoned.
  Reynard, a genetically modified part-fox, is a major character in John Crowley's novel Beasts.
  Reynard, in a variety of lives and names often containing "Guy," "Fox," "Fawkes," and "Reynard," is one of the leading characters in the Book of All Hours Duology by Hal Duncan, and is stated to be every incarnation of the trickster throughout the multiverse.
  A human version of the character appears in David R. Witanowski's novel Reynard the Fox.
  The Fantasy detective Peter Grant crosses paths with Reynard in the novel The Hanging Tree  by Ben Aaronovitch.
  A version of the character appears in Laurence Yep's A Dragon's Guide series as a shapeshifting, computer-hacking ally of the dragon Ms. Drake.
caption: Title page from Flinzer's Reineke Fuchs (Glogau 1881) for children.
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