08 | 2019
Scènes de lit
The papers in this issue of Arrêt sur Scène /Scene Focus were first delivered at the joint University of Georgia and Université Paul–Valéry Montpellier 3 conference “Bedchamber Scenes” held at the University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia, USA) on April 12, 2017, as part of our three-year collaboration, “Scene-Stealing/Ravir la scene,” supported by the Partner University Fund of the French-American Cultural Exchange Foundation, IRCL (Institute for Research on the Renaissance, the Neo-Classical Age, and the Enlightenment, UMR 5186 CNRS) of Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts of the University of Georgia, and the University Libraries of Georgia. The papers were later workshopped and edited during a series of colloquia and working meetings at both universities in November 2018 (at the University of Georgia) and May 2019 (at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3).
The conference, and this issue of Arrêt sur scène / Scene Focus, concentrate on scenes in French and English drama from the Renaissance through the Enlightenment that center in or around the bedchamber or even the bed. Such sequences include scenes of love, sex, or sleep (feigned or genuine), or of murder, sickness, or death. They present the bed as both a public receiving-chamber (as in Cleopatra’s spectacularized royal death-bed or the feigned sick-beds of Volpone or Tartuffe) and as a small and precious zone of privacy or intimacy that is often acknowledged as such through its violation (as in Iachimo’s voyeurism of Innogen in Cymbeline or the predation of Lucrece by Tarquin in Thomas Heywood’s Rape of Lucrece).
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