Jan Clarke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Clarke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarke |
| SIGNATURE | CLARKE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Algoma University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nature Revisited: Reworking Décors and Machines for Thomas Corneille’s Le Triomphe des dames (1676)
This article looks at the representation of nature through an examination of contracts agreed with joiners and scene painters. After a brief consideration of spectacular works produced between the 1630s and 1660s, it focuses on three machine plays by Thomas Corneille and Jean Donneau de Visé produced at the Hôtel Guénégaud in the mid-1670s: Circé and L’Inconnu (both 1675) and Le Triomphe des dames (1676), considering how their production was affe…
Molière’s Theatres in Paris
If nothing remains of the theatre buildings Molière occupied in Paris, we still retain the memory of them thanks to the archives, architects’ plans and detailed research that has been undertaken. Molière’s presence in Paris is known for two specific periods. His youth, when he was learning his trade, was marked by a series of failures. In order to break through in the capital, he and the Illustre Théâtre troupe converted two tennis courts into th…
The Livrets of Molière’s Plays
Livrets were distributed to the spectators of all of Molière’s plays created at court and involving music, from Le Mariage forcé (1664) to La Comtesse d’Escarbagnas (1671). They explained the action, described the decors, costumes and dances, and gave the names of those dancing. This chapter explore three ways of reading these livrets . First, they are precious traces of the conditions in which the plays were created within court entertainments. …
Molière in the Arab World
Molière played a significant role in the birth of Arab theatre and has continued to influence it right down to the present day. Every pioneer, from the Machrek to the Maghreb and not forgetting the Gulf, has been inspired by the Molière repertoire, and experts have often queried the reasons for his success. Presenting works by authors from all over the Arab world, this chapter defines Molière’s role in the development of a national Arab theatre, …
Stage Design in Paris
Thanks to the account books and the archives, it is possible to reconstitute the majority of Molière’s stage designs subsequent to his return to the capital in 1658. During the whole of this second Parisian period, his troupe shared a stage with the Italian actors. Molière gave numerous plays set in a street scene, inspired by the Italian comic decor, such as L’École des femmes or Les Fourberies de Scapin , where the doors, windows and balconies …
Molière in Context
The definitive guide to Molière's world and his afterlife, this is an accessible contextual guide for academics, undergraduates and theatre professionals alike. Interdisciplinary and diverse in scope, each chapter offers a different perspective on the social, cultural, intellectual, and theatrical environment within which Molière operated, as well as demonstrating his subsequent impact both within France and across the world. Offering fresh insig…
European women’s movements and body politics: The struggle for autonomy. (Citizen, gender and diversity series)
European women’s movements and body politics: the struggle for autonomy. (Citizen, gender and diversity series)." Social Movement Studies, 18(2), pp. 261–262
Problematic Images: Some Pitfalls Associated with the Use of Iconography in Seventeenth-Century French Theatre History
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 art history to an academic endeavor in its own right. As Christopher Balme has noted, by the late 1990s theatre iconography had established a canon of problematic documents, which did not lend themselv…
Constructing Sexuality: A Theory of Stability and Fluidity
Anti-militarism: Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace Movements
In Anti-militarism, Cynthia Cockburn critically analyzes anti-war, anti-militarism and peace social movements, and the interconnections between organizations, networks and movements with overlappin
Straddling Boundaries: Culture and the Canada-US Border
Contested Illnesses: Citizens, Science, and Health Social Movements
In Contested Illnesses, contributors from the Contest Illnesses Research Group tease apart layers of analysis in different social contexts to expose how environmental health dilemmas are contested
The Struggle for Spectacle on the Paris stage, 1669–1680
The second half of the French seventeenth century is generally viewed as the age of Classicism, when rigorously pared-down plays were performed against the neutral decor of the palais a volonte. However, what is less wellknown is that the theatre-going public was equally if not more avid for music and spectacle, as can be seen in Donneau de Vise's comment of 1672: 'Nous sommes dans un siecle ou la musique et les ballets ont des charmes pour tout …
The material conditions of Molière’s stage
The material conditions of Molière’s stage
Molière’s Theatres On 12 September 1643, the Illustre Théâtre, of which Molière was a member, rented the jeu de paume des Mestayers with the intention of converting it into a theatre. The first building in which Molière performed professionally was, therefore, a former tennis court. Paume had been popular since the Middle Ages, but had declined by the seventeenth century, leaving many buildings empty. There was at this time only one purpose-built…
Femmes dramaturges en France (1650–1750): Pièces choisies
Journal Article Femmes dramaturges en France (1650–1750): pièces choisies Get access Jan Clarke Jan Clarke University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume 59, Issue 4, October 2005, Pages 545–546, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/kni238 Published: 01 October 2005
In the Eye of the Beholder: The Actress as Beauty in Seventeenth-Century France
ARTICLE with three quotations. The first is from an anonymous Spanish Jesuit priest writing in 1589
Illuminating the Guénégaud Stage: Some Seventeenth-Century Lighting Effects
Journal Article ILLUMINATING THE GUÉNÉGAUD STAGE: SOME SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LIGHTING EFFECTS Get access JAN CLARKE JAN CLARKE KEELE UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LIII, Issue 1, January 1999, Pages 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LIII.1.1 Published: 01 January 1999
Machine Plays at the Guenegaud: The Twilight of the Gods
Short notices
Almanach des Français, 2 vols (Encyclopaedia Universalis, 1994), 319pp. and 316pp., 544F. Charmasson T., Lelorrain, A.‐M. and Sonnet, M., Chronologie de l'histoire de France (PUF, 1994), 876pp., 179F., ISBN 2 13 046139 5 Conseil national de la vie associative, Les Associations à l'épreuve de la décen‐ . tralisation: Bilan 1991–1992 (La Documentation Française, 1993), 245pp., 145F., ISBN 2 11 002974 9 Council of Europe, Population: French‐English …
The Function of the Décorateur and the Association of the Crosnier Family With Molière's Troupe and the Guénégaud Theatre
THE FUNCTION OF THE DÉCORATEUR AND THE ASSOCIATION OF THE CROSNIER FAMILY WITH MOLIÈRE'S TROUPE AND THE GUÉNÉGAUD THEATRE Get access JAN CLARKE JAN CLARKE KEELE UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XLVIII, Issue 1, January 1994, Pages 1–16, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XLVIII.1.1 Published: 01 January 1994
Contested Illnesses: Citizens, Science, and Health Social Movements
In Contested Illnesses, contributors from the Contest Illnesses Research Group tease apart layers of analysis in different social contexts to expose how environmental health dilemmas are contested
Straddling Boundaries: Culture and the Canada-US Border
Constructing Sexuality: A Theory of Stability and Fluidity
The Function of the Décorateur and the Association of the Crosnier Family With Molière's Troupe and the Guénégaud Theatre
THE FUNCTION OF THE DÉCORATEUR AND THE ASSOCIATION OF THE CROSNIER FAMILY WITH MOLIÈRE'S TROUPE AND THE GUÉNÉGAUD THEATRE Get access JAN CLARKE JAN CLARKE KEELE UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XLVIII, Issue 1, January 1994, Pages 1–16, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XLVIII.1.1 Published: 01 January 1994
Short notices
Almanach des Français, 2 vols (Encyclopaedia Universalis, 1994), 319pp. and 316pp., 544F. Charmasson T., Lelorrain, A.‐M. and Sonnet, M., Chronologie de l'histoire de France (PUF, 1994), 876pp., 179F., ISBN 2 13 046139 5 Conseil national de la vie associative, Les Associations à l'épreuve de la décen‐ . tralisation: Bilan 1991–1992 (La Documentation Française, 1993), 245pp., 145F., ISBN 2 11 002974 9 Council of Europe, Population: French‐English …
Machine Plays at the Guenegaud: The Twilight of the Gods
Illuminating the Guénégaud Stage: Some Seventeenth-Century Lighting Effects
Journal Article ILLUMINATING THE GUÉNÉGAUD STAGE: SOME SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LIGHTING EFFECTS Get access JAN CLARKE JAN CLARKE KEELE UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LIII, Issue 1, January 1999, Pages 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LIII.1.1 Published: 01 January 1999
In the Eye of the Beholder: The Actress as Beauty in Seventeenth-Century France
ARTICLE with three quotations. The first is from an anonymous Spanish Jesuit priest writing in 1589
Femmes dramaturges en France (1650–1750): Pièces choisies
Journal Article Femmes dramaturges en France (1650–1750): pièces choisies Get access Jan Clarke Jan Clarke University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume 59, Issue 4, October 2005, Pages 545–546, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/kni238 Published: 01 October 2005
The material conditions of Molière’s stage
Molière’s Theatres On 12 September 1643, the Illustre Théâtre, of which Molière was a member, rented the jeu de paume des Mestayers with the intention of converting it into a theatre. The first building in which Molière performed professionally was, therefore, a former tennis court. Paume had been popular since the Middle Ages, but had declined by the seventeenth century, leaving many buildings empty. There was at this time only one purpose-built…
The material conditions of Molière’s stage
The Struggle for Spectacle on the Paris stage, 1669–1680
The second half of the French seventeenth century is generally viewed as the age of Classicism, when rigorously pared-down plays were performed against the neutral decor of the palais a volonte. However, what is less wellknown is that the theatre-going public was equally if not more avid for music and spectacle, as can be seen in Donneau de Vise's comment of 1672: 'Nous sommes dans un siecle ou la musique et les ballets ont des charmes pour tout …
Contested Illnesses: Citizens, Science, and Health Social Movements
In Contested Illnesses, contributors from the Contest Illnesses Research Group tease apart layers of analysis in different social contexts to expose how environmental health dilemmas are contested
Anti-militarism: Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace Movements
In Anti-militarism, Cynthia Cockburn critically analyzes anti-war, anti-militarism and peace social movements, and the interconnections between organizations, networks and movements with overlappin
Straddling Boundaries: Culture and the Canada-US Border
Constructing Sexuality: A Theory of Stability and Fluidity
Problematic Images: Some Pitfalls Associated with the Use of Iconography in Seventeenth-Century French Theatre History
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 art history to an academic endeavor in its own right. As Christopher Balme has noted, by the late 1990s theatre iconography had established a canon of problematic documents, which did not lend themselv…
European women’s movements and body politics: The struggle for autonomy. (Citizen, gender and diversity series)
European women’s movements and body politics: the struggle for autonomy. (Citizen, gender and diversity series)." Social Movement Studies, 18(2), pp. 261–262
Molière’s Theatres in Paris
If nothing remains of the theatre buildings Molière occupied in Paris, we still retain the memory of them thanks to the archives, architects’ plans and detailed research that has been undertaken. Molière’s presence in Paris is known for two specific periods. His youth, when he was learning his trade, was marked by a series of failures. In order to break through in the capital, he and the Illustre Théâtre troupe converted two tennis courts into th…
The Livrets of Molière’s Plays
Livrets were distributed to the spectators of all of Molière’s plays created at court and involving music, from Le Mariage forcé (1664) to La Comtesse d’Escarbagnas (1671). They explained the action, described the decors, costumes and dances, and gave the names of those dancing. This chapter explore three ways of reading these livrets . First, they are precious traces of the conditions in which the plays were created within court entertainments. …
Molière in the Arab World
Molière played a significant role in the birth of Arab theatre and has continued to influence it right down to the present day. Every pioneer, from the Machrek to the Maghreb and not forgetting the Gulf, has been inspired by the Molière repertoire, and experts have often queried the reasons for his success. Presenting works by authors from all over the Arab world, this chapter defines Molière’s role in the development of a national Arab theatre, …
Stage Design in Paris
Thanks to the account books and the archives, it is possible to reconstitute the majority of Molière’s stage designs subsequent to his return to the capital in 1658. During the whole of this second Parisian period, his troupe shared a stage with the Italian actors. Molière gave numerous plays set in a street scene, inspired by the Italian comic decor, such as L’École des femmes or Les Fourberies de Scapin , where the doors, windows and balconies …
Molière in Context
The definitive guide to Molière's world and his afterlife, this is an accessible contextual guide for academics, undergraduates and theatre professionals alike. Interdisciplinary and diverse in scope, each chapter offers a different perspective on the social, cultural, intellectual, and theatrical environment within which Molière operated, as well as demonstrating his subsequent impact both within France and across the world. Offering fresh insig…
Nature Revisited: Reworking Décors and Machines for Thomas Corneille’s Le Triomphe des dames (1676)
This article looks at the representation of nature through an examination of contracts agreed with joiners and scene painters. After a brief consideration of spectacular works produced between the 1630s and 1660s, it focuses on three machine plays by Thomas Corneille and Jean Donneau de Visé produced at the Hôtel Guénégaud in the mid-1670s: Circé and L’Inconnu (both 1675) and Le Triomphe des dames (1676), considering how their production was affe…
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