{"title":"Databases, Revenues, & Repertory: The French Stage Online, 1680–1793 / Données, recettes & répertoire. La scène en ligne (1680–1793) ed. by Sylvaine Guyot and Jeffrey S. Ravel (review)","authors":"Susan L. Fischer","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0032","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Databases, Revenues, & Repertory: The French Stage Online, 1680–1793 / Données, recettes & répertoire. La scène en ligne (1680–1793)</em> ed. by Sylvaine Guyot and Jeffrey S. Ravel <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Susan L. Fischer </li> </ul> <em>Databases, Revenues, & Repertory: The French Stage Online, 1680–1793 / Données, recettes & répertoire. La scène en ligne (1680–1793)</em>.<br/> Edited by Sylvaine Guyot and Jeffrey S. Ravel.<br/> MIT PRESS, 2020. <p><strong>THIS DIGITAL-ONLY</strong>, open-access, bilingual volume focuses on the ongoing work of the Comédie-Française Registers Project, an international initiative that investigates how digital humanities methods might “facilitate, enrich, and affect the study of the theatrical past,” as Sylvaine Guyot and Jeffrey S. Ravel state in their introduction (3). The Comédie-Française Registers Project springs from the incredibly complete manuscript and print records of the Comédie-Française preserved in the Bibliothèque-Musée at the far side of the Palais-Royal in Paris. A set of 112 folio registers that records nightly box office receipts from over 34,000 performances has been digitalized. That sales data has been made available online through three search and visualization tools, with access provided through an application program interface. The volume— comprised of three sets of essays, their respective comment, and a postface—is available as a PDF for download from (https://cfrp.mitpress.mit.edu). The editors and their contributors offer a dialogical approach to questions such as: How did politics, economics, and social conflict fashion the troupe’s repertory and affect its finances? Was the theater a place for critical colloquy of public issues, or a place to seek escape from the vicissitudes of life’s experiences?</p> <p>Section 1, “Interpreting Data, Visualizations, and Sound,” explores the long-term tendencies in box office receipts and repertory choices throughout the eighteenth century and is rounded off by Dan Edelstein’s comment aptly titled “Back to the Future.” In his essay, “The Comédie-Française by the Numbers, 1752–2020,” Ravel compellingly invokes three earlier print studies—those of a “grub street writer” (Charles de Fieux, Chevalier de Mouhy, 1701–84), “an érudit” (Alexandre Joannidès, 1879–1926), and an “American literary historian” (Henry Carrington Lancaster, 1882–1954)—that <strong>[End Page 111]</strong> attempted to quantify the daily receipt registers of the Comédie-Française theater troupe. In the same way that the Comédie-Française Registers Project and other digital humanities projects reflect the exigencies of the second decade of the twenty-first century, so each of those earlier endeavors was informed by the ideological and sociocultural interests and expectations of the historical moment. Revisiting ","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"18 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lope de Vega y el Humanismo cristiano ed. by Jesús Ponce Cárdenas, and: Literatura y devoción en tiempos de Lope de Vega ed. by Jesús Ponce Cárdenas (review)","authors":"Chad Leahy","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"73 1","pages":"191 - 195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46854189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hacia un primer teatro clásico. El teatro del Renacimiento en su laberinto ed. by Julio Vélez Sainz (review)","authors":"Laura Mier Pérez","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"73 1","pages":"197 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49028074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where Comedias Sueltas Go to Be Discovered","authors":"Szilvia E. Szmuk-Tanenbaum, M. Zalin","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This research note provides an overview of Comedias Sueltas USA, a website dedicated to a census of holdings in US academic and independent research libraries of sueltas, understood as individual plays within the literatura de cordel tradition, published from circa 1600 to 1833 by printers based in Iberian cities, as well as population centers in Europe and the Americas ruled by Spain or within its sphere of cultural and political influence. We outline the project's fundamental goals and evolving methodologies since its conception in the early 1980s, as its founder and her collaborators have navigated the momentous technological changes that have placed special collections librarianship at the forefront of digital humanities. More recently, the project's collaborators adjusted their methods in response to the sudden closure of libraries the world over during the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with this chronicle of the long-running research collaboration, the authors provide an orientation to and explanation of the Comedias Sueltas USA website, explaining the kinds of research methods it supports for comedia and theater history studies, while also contemplating the potential for applying big data to major special collections projects.","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"73 1","pages":"13 - 32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46099397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"¿Quién te lo vezó a dezir? El habla de negro en la literatura del XVI, imitación de una realidad lingüística by Antonio Santos Morillo (review)","authors":"Diana Berruezo-Sánchez","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"73 1","pages":"201 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48161110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe: From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550–1700 ed. by Barbara Fuchs and Mercedes García-Arenal (review)","authors":"S. Kimmel","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"73 1","pages":"159 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44493058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Don W. Cruickshank (1942–2021)","authors":"Germán Vega García-Luengos","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"73 1","pages":"10 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49234895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El caballero dama. Edición crítica y estudio introductorio de Sidney Donnell by Cristóbal de Monroy y Silva (review)","authors":"José R. Cartagena-Calderón","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"73 1","pages":"177 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41350392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"En otro reino extraño: Un proyecto pionero desde la escena clásica. Entrevista a David Boceta, director del montaje","authors":"Esther Fernández","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:An interview with David Boceta, director of En otro reino extraño (2020) for Spain's Joven Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico, details the innovative collaboration in digital theater that took shape in the spring of 2020 in response to a seeming calamity for theater professionals—the sudden shutdown of theaters precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The director explains how the team of collaborators recontextualized a selection of comedias, prose drama, and lyric poetry in which Lope de Vega pondered exile, love, and poetic creation at the end of the sixteenth century. A writer's dislocation became a powerful metaphor for a theater company exploring a new realm for theater performance using a videoconferencing platform.","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"73 1","pages":"205 - 215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48236461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Signos vitales: procreación e imagen en la narrativa áurea by Enrique García Santo-Tomás (review)","authors":"Fernando Sanz-Lázaro","doi":"10.1353/boc.2021.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2021.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42292,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES","volume":"73 1","pages":"165 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45733316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}