Comédie-Française Registers Project

The Comédie-Française Registers Project (CFRP) aims to make accessible the complete registers of the Comédie Française theater troupe (1680-1800), allowing researchers to dig deeply into the practices of 17th and 18th century French theater. Materials include daily records of performances, box office receipts, and expenses. Positioned at the intersection of qualitative and quantitative approaches, the CFRP is a scholarly web resource that facilitates independent and collaborative research in a large archive. Working in a personal or shared online workspace, scholars can choose from an integrated set of search, browse, and data visualization tools to collect and analyze information in the archive, dynamically navigating large amounts of data. Once complete, the CFRP will allow scholars to pose new questions to the data.

cfregisters.org

Europe,History,Theatre

Hyperstudio Role

Developing tightly integrated data representation, visualization, and collaboration tools. Conceptualizing ways to turn handwritten notes into searchable data. Involving a community of scholars in data capture and analysis. Developing open source components that can be reused in other projects.

Collaborators

HyperStudio Team: Karen Verschooren, Madeleine Clare Elish, Mike Danziger, David Della Costa, Brett Barros, Jamie Folsom, Stephanie Stewart, Gabriella Horvath, Belinda Yung, Jia Zhang, Jason Lipshin, Undergraduate Students

Project Lead: Jeffrey Ravel, Professor of History at MIT

Kurt Fendt, Principal Research Associate in Comparative Media Studies and Executive Director of MIT's HyperStudio

Bibliothèque-Musée de la Comedie-Française: Agathe Sanjuan

Academic Collaborators: Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre (Centre de recherche HAR)

Université Paris Sorbonne (Centre d’étude de la langue et de la littérature françaises des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles - CELLF)

Université de Poitiers (Formes et Représentations en Linguistique et Littérature - FORELL)

Harvard University (Romance Languages and Literatures)