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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).

Theatres as Economic Concerns: Molière, the Hôtel Guénégaud and the Comédie-Française (2024)
Book Chapter
Clarke, J. (2024). Theatres as Economic Concerns: Molière, the Hôtel Guénégaud and the Comédie-Française. In C. Finburgh Delijani, & C. Biet (Eds.), A New History of Theatre in France (129-145). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108908566.007

Jan Clarke’s chapter examines the period of Molière and his contemporaries from the perspective of theatrical establishments. Focusing on three companies – Molière’s troupe (1658–73), the Hôtel Guénégaud company (1673–80) and the Comédie-Française (f... Read More about Theatres as Economic Concerns: Molière, the Hôtel Guénégaud and the Comédie-Française.

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.

Molière at the Hôtel Guénégaud and the Comédie-Française: The Early Years (2022)
Book Chapter
Clarke, J. (2022). Molière at the Hôtel Guénégaud and the Comédie-Française: The Early Years. In J. Clarke (Ed.), Molière in Context (275-284). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108694933.030

This chapter examines the fate of Molière’s plays in the years immediately following the author’s death as first the Hôtel Guénégaud company (1673–80) and then the Comédie-Française (from 1680) battled to capitalise on their Molière inheritance and m... Read More about Molière at the Hôtel Guénégaud and the Comédie-Française: The Early Years.

Company Administration (2022)
Book Chapter
Clarke, J. (2022). Company Administration. In J. Clarke (Ed.), Molière in Context (146-153). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108694933.016

This chapter considers the supposedly ‘democratic’ way in which seventeenth-century theatre companies managed their affairs. Each troupe consisted of a number of share-holding actor members, and decisions relating to all aspects of the company’s acti... Read More about Company Administration.

Pradon and the 'Parodie de Bérénice' (2022)
Book Chapter
Clarke, J. (2022). Pradon and the 'Parodie de Bérénice'. In N. Hammond, & P. Hammond (Eds.), Racine’s Roman Tragedies: Essays on Britannicus and Bérénice (279-309). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004504813_016

On 11 October 1683, according to Evariste Gherardi, the Comédie-Italienne gave the first performance of a show entitled Arlequin Protée, which included a parody of Racine’s Bérénice framed by a number of related scenes. This parody has generally been... Read More about Pradon and the 'Parodie de Bérénice'.

Gender Equality and the Role of Women Theatre Professionals in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century France (2021)
Book Chapter
Clarke, J. (2021). Gender Equality and the Role of Women Theatre Professionals in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century France. In D. Conroy (Ed.), Towards and Equality of the Sexes in Early Modern France (152-183). Abingdon and New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429275203-10

This chapter will examine the theatre as one of the few areas where women were able to enjoy full professional equality with men throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century. Inevitably, most commentators on this period have concentrated on... Read More about Gender Equality and the Role of Women Theatre Professionals in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century France.

The Dedication of Tragedies to Women (2020)
Book Chapter
Clarke, J. (2020). The Dedication of Tragedies to Women. In M. Bombart, S. Cornic, E. Keller-Rahbé, & M. Rosellini (Eds.), « À qui lira ». Littérature, livre et librairie en France au XVIIe siècle, Actes du 47e congrès de la NASSCFL (Lyon, 21-24 juin 2017). Gunter Narr

The Consequences for Molière's Troupe of its Trips to Court, 1667-73 (2019)
Book Chapter
Clarke, J. (2019). The Consequences for Molière's Troupe of its Trips to Court, 1667-73. In M. J. Muratore (Ed.), Molière re-Envisioned : twenty-first century retakes / Renouveau et Renouvellement Moliéresques : reprises contemporaines (31-63). Hermann