A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras

My research focuses on early, modern literature and culture in French. I consider fiction in historical action, its first forms in relation to many others, including the contemporary.    Timely Fictions, the book I’m writing now, pursues this approach in a series of pictorial essays focused on poetry, drama, narrative.  Each essay cuts “across the grain of time” considering, for example, Villon, with Hugo and Glissant, Christine de P