This area covers research into the French theatrical repertoire in the broadest sense of the term - spoken theatre, lyrical and spectacular genres of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - through a multidisciplinary approach. It brings together specialists from different fields: literature, history, theatre, music, dance and art history. The focus is on a number of themes: porosity between Parisian, provincial and European stages (transfers of imagination and practices, movement of people, creation of an inter-theatrical aesthetic); study of stage practices (acting, declamation, singing, dance, music); material culture (stage apparatus, sets, costumes, technical and craft trades); links with power (institutions, patronage, the spectacular life of the Court); reception in the past and in the present (critical texts, audiences, reconstitutions of works).