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FREN 5450 Le Théâtre français des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles

Welcome to the class page for Le Théâtre français des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, taught by Dr. Marijn S. Kaplan.
Objectifs du cours: There is arguably no period in French history when theater was as popular and as strongly supported by the government as during the Sun King’s reign. Through our readings of works by the major playwrights of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, from Corneille to Beaumarchais, we will analyze in this course how drama functioned as an expression of artistic genius in the cultural, social, and political context of the Ancien Régime.

Please visit the website for the UNT Music Library's Lully Web Project. Lully was court composer to the Sun King.

http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/lully/

Finding Journal Articles

The UNT Libraries subscribe to a number of databases that index and provide full-text access to journals about French literature. These databases do not exclusively cover French; rather, they encompass a wide variety of topics in the humanities. Since you will need to search for scholarly articles for this class, it is important that you know which are the best databases to use.  Once you know, you can search for them by name from the library home page.  To do this, use the search box at the top of the page on the right and select Electronic Resources. Then enter the name of the database you need in the search box.

Please note:  not all journals are available electronically.  If you do a journal title search in the online catalog, results will show whether we have that journal at all, and if we do, in which format(s) we hold it.  If the database you are searching does not show that full text is available for an article you need, please check our online catalog to see if it is available here in print.  Some databases offer the option of searching our catalog in such cases, but when you search from within a database, results are not always reliable.  In other words, please do not give up until you have searched our online catalog.

If you need an article we do not have, you can request it from Interlibrary Loan.  They can usually get articles quickly by having a holder send them electronically.  Even so, it is a good idea not to wait till the last minute for such requests.  There is a hotlink for Interlibrary Loan on the library home page under the Library Services heading. 

Caution:  You can search JStor for pertinent articles.  This is an excellent resource, but please note that it is an archive of backfiles.  THIS MEANS THAT IT DOES NOT USUALLY HAVE ANY CURRENT ISSUES OF THE JOURNALS IT INCLUDES.

Advice:  The first three databases listed below are from electronic provider EbscoHost.  Beware of the search default.  It is set for Boolean/Phrase searching.  If you just want to search for key words instead of a particular phrase, change the default to "Find all my search terms" for better results.