Exposing Marandet: French plays from the 18th and 19th centuries
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The Exposing Marandet project has made openly and freely available a coherent set of pamphlets during a seminal period of French history. The archive will be an essential part of teaching at the University of Warwick, and of interest to a broad audience of enthusiasts and researchers
The aim of the Exposing Marandet project is to digitise and make freely available 1500 18th and early 19th century French plays - comprising 75,000 pages - from the Library’s Marandet Collection, and to investigate opportunities to improve connections with the CESAR repository of French theatre resources.
462 of the Marandet Collection’s 4000 plays have previously been digitised by the University for use in its current teaching and research. They are hosted on a CONTENTdm server managed by the University Library and have been made openly accessible through a standard Web browser interface. There are typically 1300-1500 uses a week, demonstrating high demand for access to this unique collection.
The project will extend access to just under 50% of the collection, covering the period 1700 to 1830. Images, metadata and full-text transcript files will be created to give full access to the resource content.
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