Jacques Scherer

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Jacques Scherer (born February 24, 1912 in Paris , † June 4, 1997 ) was a French Romance studies and theater scholar.

life and work

Scherer was a graduate of the École normal supérieure . He passed the Agrégation in 1936. From 1938 to 1939 he taught at Swarthmore College . From 1942 to 1943 he worked for the radio station Voice of America . In 1944 he headed the foreign department in the Ministry of Information of the Provisional Government of the French Republic . He completed his habilitation in Paris in 1945 with the theses L'Expression littéraire dans l'oeuvre de Mallarmé (Paris 1947) and (Ed.) Corneille, Rodogune , Paris 1945. From 1946 to 1954 he taught at the University of Nancy (from 1948 as a professor ). From 1954 to 1983 he was a full professor at the Sorbonne , first for French literature, then for the history and technology of French theater. In 1959 he founded the Institut d'études théâtrales (IET) with Raymond Lebègue . From 1973 to 1979 he taught at Oxford University .

Jacques Scherer was married to the literary scholar Colette Scherer, b. Blé.

Other works

Monographs

  • La dramaturgie classique en France (Paris 1950, 1959, 1970, 1986, 2001)
  • La Dramaturgie de Beaumarchais, Paris 1954, 1970, 1989, 1994, 1999
  • Le "Livre" de Mallarmé. Premières recherches sur des documents inédits, Paris 1957, 1978
  • Structures de Tartuffe, Paris 1966
  • Sur le Don Juan de Molière, Paris 1967
  • Le Cardinal et l'orang-outang. Essai sur les inversions et les distances dans la pensée de Diderot, Paris 1972
  • Théâtre et anti-théâtre au XVIIIe siècle. An inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on February 13, 1975, Oxford 1975
  • Grammaire de Mallarmé, Paris 1977
  • Racine et / ou la cérémonie, Paris 1982
  • Le Théâtre de Corneille, Paris 1984
  • Dramaturgies d'Œdipe, Paris 1987
  • (with Colette Scherer) Le théâtre classique, Paris 1987, 1993 (Que sais-je? 1414)
  • Le théâtre en Afrique noire francophone, Paris 1992
  • Dramaturgies du vrai-faux, Paris 1994

Editorial activities (selection)

  • (Ed.) Beaumarchais, Montréal 1945
  • (Ed.) Rotrou, Cosroès. Tragedy, Paris 1950
  • (Ed. With René Bray) Œuvres complètes de Molière, 3 vols., Paris 1954–1956
  • (Ed.) Corneille, Théâtre complet, 4 vols., Paris 1973
  • (Ed.) Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville, Paris 1982

literature

  • Dramaturgies, langages dramatiques. Mélanges pour Jacques Scherer, Paris 1986
  • Le Monde June 10, 1997
  • Qui était qui au XXe siècle, Levallois-Perret 2005 sv
  • Jacques Scherer, Molière, Marivaux, Ionesco ... 60 ans de critique, ed. by Colette Scherer, Saint-Genouph 2007 (with list of publications)
  • Jean Goldzink, Beaumarchais dans l'ordre de ses raisons. Dialogue posthumously with Jacques Scherer sur les dramaturgies de Beaumarchais, Saint-Genouph 2008

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personal data
SURNAME Scherer, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romance studies, literary scholar and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH June 4th 1997