All Outputs (23)

Food and Drink On Stage and Off (1660-1700) (2024)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (2024). Food and Drink On Stage and Off (1660-1700). European Drama and Performance Studies, 23(2), Article 163-210

This essay examines payments for food and drink recorded by Parisian theatre companies between 1660 and 1700. First, it looks at the provision of food offstage: during rehearsals, at company meetings or on business trips, for example. Second, it cons... Read More about Food and Drink On Stage and Off (1660-1700).

Costume in the Records of Molière's Troupe, the Hôtel Guénégaud Company and the Comédie-Française (1658-1717) (2023)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (2023). Costume in the Records of Molière's Troupe, the Hôtel Guénégaud Company and the Comédie-Française (1658-1717). European Drama and Performance Studies, 20(1), 219-256. https://doi.org/10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-15073-2.p.0219

This article examines the information contained in the extant account books of Molière’s troupe, the Hôtel Guénégaud company and the Comédie-Française with regard to their production policies in the matter of costume, considering such factors as how... Read More about Costume in the Records of Molière's Troupe, the Hôtel Guénégaud Company and the Comédie-Française (1658-1717).

Relations Between the French and Italian Actors, 1658-1689 (2022)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (2022). Relations Between the French and Italian Actors, 1658-1689. European Drama and Performance Studies, 18(1), 25-71. https://doi.org/10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12918-9.p.0025

Dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle, la troupe des Italiens partage un théâtre avec la troupe de Molière et de Guénégaud, avant de s’établir à l’Hôtel de Bourgogne lors de la création de la Comédie-Française. Les relations, d’abord harmonieuses, s... Read More about Relations Between the French and Italian Actors, 1658-1689.

Democracy versus Autocracy: a Re-Examination of the Role of Company Leader (1658-1680) (2022)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (2022). Democracy versus Autocracy: a Re-Examination of the Role of Company Leader (1658-1680). Theater, 52(3), 108-117. https://doi.org/10.1215/01610775-10118917

After Molière (1673–1689) (2022)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (2022). After Molière (1673–1689). Forum for Modern Language Studies, 58(3), 297-311. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqac037

Molière was, above all, a man of the theatre: an actor and administrator as well his company’s chief playwright, his death in 1673 was a blow from which many thought his company would not recover. This article examines the fifteen or so years followi... Read More about After Molière (1673–1689).

"Cinquante pauvres ouviers": employés chez Molière et à l’Hôtel Guénégaud de 1660 à 1689 (2020)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (online). "Cinquante pauvres ouviers": employés chez Molière et à l’Hôtel Guénégaud de 1660 à 1689. Revue d'historiographie du théâtre,

L'Hôtel Guénégaud salon un croquis inédit (2018)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (2018). L'Hôtel Guénégaud salon un croquis inédit. Papers on French seventeeth century literature, 45(88), 159-179

La Création d'un répertoire national: la Comédie-Française de 1680 à 1689 (2018)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (2018). La Création d'un répertoire national: la Comédie-Française de 1680 à 1689. Littératures classiques (Toulouse), 95(1), 77-88. https://doi.org/10.3917/licla1.095.0077

La création de la Comédie-Française a réuni des comédiens de trois troupes différentes, dont certains avaient également joué dans une quatrième. Au cours de cette période, il y eut relativement peu de créations : 90 % environ de la production a consi... Read More about La Création d'un répertoire national: la Comédie-Française de 1680 à 1689.

Back to Black: Variable Lighting Levels on the Seventeenth-Century French Stage, Lavoisier and the Enigma of La Pierre philosophale (2017)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (2017). Back to Black: Variable Lighting Levels on the Seventeenth-Century French Stage, Lavoisier and the Enigma of La Pierre philosophale. Insights, 10,

Problematic Images: Some Pitfalls Associated with the use of Iconography in Seventeenth-century French Theatre History (2017)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (2017). Problematic Images: Some Pitfalls Associated with the use of Iconography in Seventeenth-century French Theatre History. Theatre Journal, 69(4), 535-53. https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2017.0069

The study of iconography is now firmly established as a key strand within the discipline of theatre studies. This essay examines its development, focusing primarily on the theoreticians of the 1990s and 2000s, and its evolution from a sub-strand of a... Read More about Problematic Images: Some Pitfalls Associated with the use of Iconography in Seventeenth-century French Theatre History.

Tristan dans les registres (2015)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (2015). Tristan dans les registres. Cahiers Tristan L'Hermite, 37, 23-45

The Struggle for Spectacle on the Paris Stage, 1660-1680 (2012)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (2012). The Struggle for Spectacle on the Paris Stage, 1660-1680. The Seventeenth Century, 27(2), https://doi.org/10.7227/tsc.27.2.4

From the Palais-Royal to the Guénégaud: Life After Molière. (2007)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (2007). From the Palais-Royal to the Guénégaud: Life After Molière

The Material Conditions of the Seventeenth-Century French Stage according to the comédies des comédiens. (2007)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (2007). The Material Conditions of the Seventeenth-Century French Stage according to the comédies des comédiens

Violence Against Actresses: Evidence from Campardon and Others (2007)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (2007). Violence Against Actresses: Evidence from Campardon and Others. Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, 6, 161-178

La Devineresse and the 'Affaire des poisons' (2006)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (2006). La Devineresse and the 'Affaire des poisons'. Seventeenth-century French studies, 28, 221-234

Pierre Corneille dans les répertoires des troupes de Molière et de l'Hôtel Guénégaud (2006)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (2006). Pierre Corneille dans les répertoires des troupes de Molière et de l'Hôtel Guénégaud. Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France, 106(3), 571-597

Comment définir mineur/majeur? Une étude du répertoire de la troupe de Molière et de la compagnie de l'Hôtel Guénégaud (2004)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (2004). Comment définir mineur/majeur? Une étude du répertoire de la troupe de Molière et de la compagnie de l'Hôtel Guénégaud. Littératures classiques (Toulouse), 51, 187-204

'In the eye of the beholder'? : the actress as beauty in seventeenth-century France (2003)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (2003). 'In the eye of the beholder'? : the actress as beauty in seventeenth-century France. Seventeenth-century French studies, 25(1), 111-127. https://doi.org/10.1179/026510603792954353

Illuminating the Guénégaud Stage: Some Seventeenth-Century Lighting Effects. (1999)
Journal Article
Clarke, J. (1999). Illuminating the Guénégaud Stage: Some Seventeenth-Century Lighting Effects. French Studies, 53, 1-15