French Literature Reviews - 2026
Text no. 33/34: Performing Arts
Theatre and Performance
Text and Representation: Performing Arts (16th - 18th Century)
Texte, no. 33/34, 2003, 374 p.
Edited and introduced by Benoît Bolduc
Benoît BOLDUC: Introduction - Traces, Documents, Monuments: The Texts of Performance History
Julie S. PETERS: The Body of Mnemosyne: Theatre and the Book as Memory Machines in the Age of Print
John MCCLELLAND: Theatres of Empowerment: Renaissance Spectator Sports and their Ancient and Medieval Antecedents
Margaret M. McGOWAN: Apology, Justification and Monuments to Posterity: Le Recueil des Inscriptions (1558) and L'Entrée de la Reine Marie de Médicis dans Paris (1610)
Christian BIET: Tragic Text and History: The Depiction of Regicide in Jacques de Fonteny's Cléophon (1600)
Hélène VISENTIN: The Design of the Machine Play: A Special Case of Inscription for Performance Texts
Guy SPIELMANN: Issues in the Classical "Theatre Text": From Machine Tragedy to Fairground Farces
Charles MAZOUER: Accounts of the Festivities Held at Versailles from 1664 to 1674
Anne-Madeleine GOULET: Books of Airs by Various Authors Published by Ballard (1658-1694): From Utilitarian Book to Memorial Book
Michael BURDEN: The Dramatick Opera Libretto as Monument
Pascal RIENDEAU: The Theatre of Les Feluettes or the Romantic Reading of Michel Marc Bouchard
Martial POIRSON: Classical Texts, Between Canonization and Relegation (Dossier)
- Memory Gaps, an interview with Jean-Marie VILLEGIER
- Phèdre or the Misadventures of the Mona Lisa, an interview with Christian RIST
- A Way of Archiving Oneself in the Present, an interview with Daniel MESGISH
- Fairground Theatre: The Entrance of Another Repertoire, an interview with Guy SPIELMANN
- Classical plays are tombs upon which we come to converse intimately with our ancestors, but also to laugh and sing, an interview with Didier DOUMERGUE
Readers interested in early modern performance history, print culture, and the editorial practices surrounding theatrical texts may find this volume a helpful reference. The collection brings together diverse scholarly perspectives on how dramatic works, musical scores, and festival accounts were codified, published, and preserved during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.