IN MEMORIAM – Christian Biet (1952–2020)

"IN MEMORIAM – Christian Biet (1952–2020)." Early Modern French Studies, 42(2), pp. 106–107

Biographical note

Michael Meere teaches French and Medieval Studies at Wesleyan University. He has edited French Renaissance and Baroque Drama: Text, Performance, Theory (2015) and has completed a book (under contract) on the ethics and poetics of onstage violence in sixteenth-century French vernacular tragedy.

Correspondence to: Michael Meere, Email: [email protected]

Notes

1 Christian Biet’s publications are too many to list here. See <https://har.parisnanterre.fr/les-chercheurs/chercheurs-titulaires-et-rattaches/christian-biet/> [accessed September 23, 2020].

2 Recent scholarly publications and the internet more broadly abound with moving obituaries and eulogies for Christian. For a rather complete overview of his life and work, see <https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2020/07/20/la-mort-de-christian-biet-historien-et-specialiste-du-theatre_6046756_3382.html> [accessed September 23, 2020].