Comedie-Francaise Registers Project
Update (February 2010) - Oxford Brookes, MIT and the Comédie-Française have been unable to come a suitable licencing agreement that would allow the presentation of the digitised materials on the Web.
This has meant, unfortunately, that the project has had to be terminated and will not be continued. Payments for this project have been returned to the funding bodies.
The Comédie-Française Registers Project is a collaborative enterprise between Oxford Brookes and MIT, which aims to make the contents of the Comedie Francaise’s daily registers (total series 1680-1800, but for this application 1755-1789) available online
- as digital facsimiles of each page;
- as a database containing the data transcribed from each page;
- with a series of interactive tools allowing the user to organise and dynamically visualise the contents of the database.
The registers constitute a vital resource for the study of the early modern French theatre but their contents have never been generally available. Moreover, the interactive tools will enable scholars to formulate research questions on multiple levels simultaneously, revealing patterns that it was previously impossible to identify. The outcomes will therefore represent an enormous advance in the resources at the disposal of early modern scholars.