Iconographie théâtrale

Appel à collaboration aimablement transmis par Paul Scott : Dear colleague, The Salford Protocol is a pilot project funded by the British Academy. The project was first envisaged at the international conference organised by the Centre for Seventeenth-Century Theatre Studies in Salford (January 2000), which led to the drawing-up of the Salford Protocol. This has now been endorsed by the Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and several British universities with staff working in the field. The pilot project is investigating the feasibility of setting up an online database of imagery relating to the study of French theatre during the period from 1600 to 1800. The images will deal with all visual aspects of theatre: frontispieces, title pages, engravings and woodcuts of performances, theatres, actors and any other aspect of theatre iconography during the target period. The project managers are Dr Jan Clarke (Durham) and Mr Barry Russell (Oxford Brookes), with an advisory management committee consisting of Professor John Dunkley (Aberdeen), Dr Nicholas Hammond (Cambridge), and Professor Henry Phillips (Manchester). Besides helping students and scholars in the field by making web-quality images available online, the project will also address the needs of copyright-holders by providing online details of where the originals are held, whom to contact, reproduction rights and costs, etc. In this way, we hope to serve both sides, and provide a single point of entry for the search and retrieval of images falling within our domain of interest. To this end, I would like to canvas interested researchers, particularly those working within French theatre or web-based projects, to ask their advice in identifying prime target materials, indicating those likely to be of greatest benefit for teaching and research if made available online. Full details on the project's history and aims can be found in the Salford Protocol website: http://www.theatre-studies.org . I would be very grateful to receive comments, advice and suggestions at this e-mail address

. Many thanks for your time, Paul Scott Postdoctoral Researcher Salford Protocol Project