Staff in the Department of French
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Professor Jan Clarke, BA, MA, PhD Warwick
Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 43430
Fax: +44 (0) 191 33 43421
Room number: A47, Elvet Riverside I
Member of the Centre for 17th-Century Studies
Contact Professor Jan Clarke (email at jan.clarke@durham.ac.uk)
Research Groups
- Culture and Difference
- Literature/History/Theory
- Visual and Performance
Research Interests
- Seventeenth and eighteenth-century theatre history
- Theatre architecture
- Stage design and theatre machinery
- Theatre company administration
- Women theatre professionals (actresses and other employees)
- Molière
- Thomas Corneille
Indicators of Esteem
- 2012: Médaille de la ville de Tours:
- 2012: Visiting Professor, University of Kansas:
- Collaboratrice internationale, Centre d'études des théâtres de la foire et de la Comédie-Italienne:
- Member of AHRC Peer Review College:
- Member of Conseil d'Administration, Centre international de rencontres sur le dix-septième siècle:
- Member of the Editorial Board of Seventeenth-Century French Studies:
- Secretary General (Administration), International Federation for Theatre Research:
Selected Publications
Books: authored
- 2007 The Guénégaud Theatre in Paris (1673-1680). Volume Three: the Demise of the Machine Play, Edwin Mellen, 524 pp.
- 2001 The Guénégaud Theatre in Paris (1673-1680), Volume Two: The Accounts Season by Season. The Guénégaud Theatre in Paris (1673-1680), Volume Three: The Demise of the Machine Play, Edwin Mellen Press, 435, 485 pp.
- 1998 The Guénégaud Theatre in Paris (1673-1680). Volume One: Founding, Design and Production, Edwin Mellen Press, 428 pp.
Books: edited
- 2011 (co-edited with Pasquier, Pierre & Phillips, Henry) La Ville en scène en France et en Europe (1552-1709), Peter Lang.
- 1989 Thomas Corneille, Circé édition critique, University of Exeter Press, lxiv+189 pp.
Books: sections
- 2011 'L'Éclairage', in Pasquier, Pierre & Surgers, Anne (eds.), La Représentation théâtrale en France au XVIIe siècle, Armand Colin, pp. 119-140
- 1997 'Part Three: 1680-1715', in Howarth, W. D., Forman, Edward., Golder, John., O'Regan, Michael. & Smith, Christopher. (eds.), French Theatre in the Neo-classical Era: 1550-1789, Cambridge University Press.
Conference papers
Essays in edited volumes
- 2012 'Du Molière sans Molière', in Poirson, Martial (ed.), Ombres de Molière - Naissance d'un mythe littéraire à travers ses avatars du XVIIe siècle à nos jours, Armand Colin.
- 2012 'O Hôtel Guénégaud: de quadra de tênis a teatro et novamente adaptado como quadra', in Lima, Evelyn Furquim Werneck (ed.), Arquitetura, Teatro et Cultura, Contra Capa, pp. 85-120
- 2011 'Aile, coulisse et cantonnade: l'évolution de trois termes de théâtre', in Forestier, Georges & Michel, Lise (eds.), La Scène et la coulisse dans le théâtre du XVIIe siècle en France, PUPS, pp. 87-95
- 2011 'L'Espace urbain dans la scénographie du dix-septième siècle', in Clarke, Jan, Pasquier, Pierre & Phillips, Henry (eds.), La Ville en scène en France et en Europe (1552-1709), Peter Lang.
- 2011 'La Représentation de la paix et du pouvoir politique dans les prologues d'opéras et de pièces à machines, 1658-1678', in Dufourcet, Marie-Bernadette, Mazouer, Charles & Surgers, Anne (eds.), Spectacles et pouvoirs dans l'Europe de l'Ancien Régime (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle), Gunter Narr, pp. 265-282
- 2011 'The Representation of Peace in Opera and Machine Play Prologues (1660-1680)', in Banks, Kathryn & Bossier, Philiep G. (eds.), Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period: Consolidation of God-Given Power, Peeters, pp. 41-64
- 2010 'The Portia Principle: Montfleury's La Femme juge et partie (1668/9) and Fatouville's Colombine Avocat pour et contre (1685)', in Scott, Paul (ed.), Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in the Republic of Letters, Manchester University Press, pp. 211-225
- 2009 'Du ballet de cour à la foire: les origines de la pantomime au XVIIe siècle', in Rykner, Arnaud. (ed.), Pantomime et théâtre du corps: transparence et opacité du hors-texte, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, pp. 21-31
- 2008 'Le Spectateur au Palais-Royale et à l'Hôtel Guénégaud', in Louvat-Molozay, Bénédicte. & Salaün, Franck. (eds.), Le Spectateur de théâtre à l'âge classique, L'Entretemps, pp. 66-77
- 2007 'La Lumière comme effet spectaculaire', in Zaiser, Rainer (ed.), L'Âge de la représentation: l'art du spectaculaire au XVIIe siècle, Gunter Narr, pp. 89-102
- 2006 'A Symbiosis of Special Effects: from the Machine Play to the Opera and Back Again', in Norman, Buford. (ed.), Formes et formations au dix-septième siècle, Günter Narr, pp. 121-132
- 2006 'The Material Conditions of Molière's Stage', in Bradby, David. & Calder, Andrew. (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Molière, Cambridge University Press, pp. 15-36
- 2006 'Un théâtre qui n'a jamais existé le tripot dans la rue du Temple', in Mazouer, Charles (ed.), Des lieux du spectacle dans l'Europe du XVIIe siècle, Günter Narr.
- 2003 'Catherine Biancolelli or the wit and wisdom of Colombine', in Wetsel, David., Canovas, Frédéric., Probes, Christine. & Norman, Buford. (eds.), Les femmes au grand siècle le baroque musique et littérature musique et liturgie, Gunter Narr, pp. 203-217
- 2002 'Of Actresses and Acrobats', in Britnell, Jennifer. & Moss, Ann. (eds.), Female Saints and Sinners: Saintes et Mondaines (France, 1450-1650), University of Durham, pp. 267-283
- 2001 'The Hôtel Guénégaud Auditorium according to the Theatre’s Account Books', in Tomlinson, Philip (ed.), French 'Classical' Theatre Today: Teaching, Research, Performance, Rodopi, pp. 139-153
Journal papers: academic
- 2012 'Les Conditions matérielles de la création des Précieuses ridicules', Le Nouveau Moliériste 7.
- 2012 'The Struggle for Spectacle on the Paris Stage, 1660-1680', The Seventeenth Century 27, pp. 212
- 2007 'The Material Conditions of the Seventeenth-Century French Stage according to the comédies des comédiens', Le Nouveau Moliériste 6, pp. 3-37
- 2007 'Violence Against Actresses: Evidence from Campardon and Others', Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 6, pp. 161-178
- 2006 'La Devineresse and the 'Affaire des poisons'', Seventeenth-Century French Studies 28, pp. 221-234
- 2006 'Pierre Corneille dans les répertoires des troupes de Molière et de l'Hôtel Guénégaud', Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France 106, pp. 571-597
- 2004 'Comment définir mineur/majeur? Une étude du répertoire de la troupe de Molière et de la compagnie de l'Hôtel Guénégaud', Littératures classiques 51, pp. 187-204
- 2003 'In the eye of the beholder ? the actress as beauty in seventeenth-century France', Seventeenth-century French studies 25, pp. 111-127
Journal papers: online
- 2007 'From the Palais-Royal to the Guénégaud: Life After Molière', Cahiers du dix-septième 11, pp. 27-42
Grants Awarded
- 2012: British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship
- 2012: Critical edition in three volumes of the the.... (£38637.15 from The British Academy)
- 2009: British Academy Overseas Conference Grant
- 2005: AHRB Small Grant in the Creative and Performing Arts
- 2005: British Academy Overseas Conference Grant
- 2005: WORKING CONDITIONS IN 17TH CENTURY FRENCH THEATRE (£1596.00 from Arts & Humanities Research Board)
- 2003: British Academy Overseas Conference Grant
- 2001: British Academy Larger Research Grant
- 2001: British Academy Overseas Conference Grant
- 2001: TOWARDS A REALISATION OF THE SALFORD PROTOCOL (£19575.00 from The British Academy)
- 1997: British Academy Publication Subvention