The performing arts in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century France : the making of theatre / Marie Bouhaïk-Gironès and Estelle Doudet -- Drama during the Wars of Religion : a contextual approach / Charlotte Bouteille and Tiphaine Karsenti -- Drama before standardization : the theatre of blood / Christian Biet -- Neoclassical tragedy : listening to women / John D. Lyons -- Molière, a man of the stage? / Martial Poirson -- Theatres as economic concerns : Molière, the Hôtel Guénégaud and the ComédieFrançaise / Jan Clarke -- Seventeenth-century printed theatre : gender and peritext / Derval Conroy -- Non-official eighteenth-century stages : censorship, subversion and entertainment / Guy Spielmann -- The expanded theatre of the French Revolution / Sanja Perovic -- Nineteenth-century melodrama, vaudeville and entertainment : the vitality and richness of a marginalized theatre / Roxane Martin -- New approaches to women actors and celebrity in nineteenth-century France / Clare Siviter and Emmanuela Wroth -- Extended Romanticism in the extended nineteenth century / Florence Naugrette -- Poetry in action, 1945-1968 : from Antonin Artaud to lettrism and the domaine poétique / Cristina De Simone -- Performance and installation art : re-turning to Artaud through Christian Boltanski / Carl Lavery, with Rezvan Zandieh -- Twentieth- and twenty-first-century theatre directing : perception at play / Christophe Triau -- Political theatre in France (1954-2020) : the Brechtian ordinate / Olivier Neveux -- Liberating Third World theatre : Serreau, Kateb, Césaire, and Genet / Joanne Brueton -- Francophone theatre-makers in France : traumatizing the French stage / Judith G. Miller -- Migration in modern and contemporary playwriting : uprooting and rerouting / Clare Finburgh Delijani -- An interview with Éric Ruf / Clare Siviter -- An Interview with Magali Mougel / Chris Campbell -- An Interview with Phia Ménard / Estel Baudou