i. Books:

William Brooks: Philippe Quinault, Dramatist.  Oxford, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, etc: Peter Lang, 2009. (512 pp.) ISBN-13: 9783039115334.

William Brooks: Artists' Images and the Self-Descriptions of Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orleans (1652-1722), the Second Madame. Representations of a Royal Princess in the time of Louis XIV and the Regency. Lewiston, NY, Queenston, Ont, and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007. (412 pp. incl. plates) ISBN-13: 9780773454200.

 
William Brooks & Rainer Zaiser (eds): Theatre, Fiction, and Poetry in the French Long Seventeenth Century. Oxford, New York, Frankfurt, Bern: Peter Lang,  2007. (322 pp.) ISBN-13:  9783039111039.

William Brooks & Rainer Zaiser (eds): Religion, Ethics, and History in the French Long Seventeenth Century. Oxford, New York, Frankfurt, Bern: Peter Lang, 2007. (340 pp.) ISBN-13:  9783039111046.

William Brooks & Buford Norman: Critical and Analytical Chronology of opera performances in Paris and at court from 1655 to 1687. Versailles: Éditions du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, 2006. (416 pp.) ISBN 2911239512. 

Laurence Pope (ed.), in collaboration with William S. Brooks: Letters (1694-1700) of François de Callières to the Marquise d’Huxelles. Lewiston, NY, Queenston, Ont, and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. (xxii + 314 pp.) ISBN 077346297X.

William Brooks & Edmund J. Campion (eds): Pausanias, Philippe Quinault, édition critique. Geneva:  Droz, 2004 (‘Textes littéraires français’). (141 pp.) ISBN 2600008829.

William Brooks (ed): L’Amant indiscret, Philippe Quinault. Critical edition by William Brooks. Liverpool: University of Liverpool, 2003. (152 pp.)  ISBN 0953381668.

William Brooks & P. J. Yarrow: The Dramatic Criticism of Elizabeth Charlotte, duchesse d’Orléans, with an annotated chronology of performances of the popular and court theatre in France (1671-1722), reconstructed from her letters. Lewiston, NY, Queenston, Ont, and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996. (375 pp.) ISBN 0773488340. 

William Brooks, Buford Norman, & Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi (eds): Alceste, Philippe Quinault, suivi de La Querelle d’Alceste. Anciens et modernes avant 1680. Textes de Ch. Perrault, Racine, et P. Perrault. Edition critique. Geneva: Droz, 1994 (‘Textes littéraires français’). (222 pp.) ISBN 2600000534

William Brooks: Le Théâtre et l’opéra vus par les gazetiers Robinet et Laurent. Paris, Seattle, Tübingen: Biblio 17. 1993. (182 pp.)

William Brooks & Edmund J. Campion (eds): Bellérophon, Philippe Quinault, édition critique. Geneva: Droz, 1990 (‘Textes littéraires français’). (142 pp.)

William Brooks: Bibliographie critique du théâtre de Quinault. Paris, Seattle, Tübingen: Biblio 17. 1988. (136 pp.)

ii. Database:

iii. Chapters in books:

William Brooks: ‘Madame de Saintonge et ses livrets Didon et Circé’, in Henry Desmarest (1661-1741): Exils d'un musicien dans l'Europe du Grand Siècle, edited by Jean Duron and Yves Ferraton. Liège: Pierre Mardaga, 2005. Pages 193-205.

William Brooks: ‘Decrypting the chronology of early French opera’, in French Classical Theatre Today: teaching, research, performance, edited by Philip Tomlinson. Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi, 2001. Pages 39-52.

William Brooks: ‘Quinault and La Mère coquette’ in Essays on French Comic Drama from the 1640s to the 1780s, edited by Derek Connon and George Evans. Frankfurt & Bern: Peter Lang, 2000. Pages 43-54.

William Brooks: ‘How Quinault uses political commonplaces’ in Ethics and Politics in Seventeenth-Century France, edited by K.C. Cameron. Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1996. Pages 211-22.

William Brooks: ‘The nouveau roman as trap’, in Nouveau Roman Handbook, edited by Ralph Yarrow. Norwich: University of East Anglia, 1984. Pages 40-46.

iv. Articles in refereed journals:

William Brooks: ‘Jodelet and Les Précieuses ridicules: performance, farce, and meaning.’ Actes du 39e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Lincoln, NE, ed. by Russell Ganim and Thomas M. Carr. Paris, Seattle, Tübingen: Gunter Narr, pp. 55-66. 2009.

William Brooks & Christine McCall Probes: ‘Madame Palatine, Mignard, and Louis XIV: From Innocence and Happiness to Eavesdropping and Embarrassment’. Actes du 39e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Lincoln, NE, ed. by Russell Ganim and Thomas M. Carr. Paris, Seattle, Tübingen: Gunter Narr, pp. 259-71. 2009.

William Brooks: ‘Nostalgia in the letters of the second Madame, Elisabeth Charlotte.’ Cahiers du 17e siècle, vol. 10, no.2, pp. 1-17. December 2005

William Brooks: ‘Intervalles, entractes, and intermèdes in the Paris theatre.’ Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 24, pp. 107-25. 2002.

William Brooks & P.J. Yarrow: ‘Armand de Bourbon, marquis de Miremont, and his relations in France and England’. Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 23, pp.187-205. 2001. [Appeared July 2002.]

William Brooks: ‘Racine; or the Triumph of Irrelevance’, in Racine et/ou le classicisme, special number of Biblio 17, edited by Ronald W. Tobin. Paris, Seattle, Tübingen: Gunter Narr, pp. 265-74. 2001.

William Brooks & P.J. Yarrow: ‘Three Huguenots at the English court: Louis de Durfort and his nieces, Mlle de Malauze, a correspondent of Elisabeth Charlotte, duchesse d’Orléans, and Mlle de Roye, governess to the royal children’. Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 22, pp. 177-90. 2000.

William Brooks: ‘Perrin, Corneille, and the beginnings of French opera’, in Actes du 29e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, University of Victoria, edited by Claire Carlin. Paris, Seattle, Tübingen: Gunter Narr, pp. 337-47. 1998.

William Brooks: ‘Louis XIV’s dismissal of the Italians: the episode of La Fausse Prude’. Modern Language Review, 91, pp. 840-47. October 1996.

William Brooks, Axel Goodbody, J.B Smith, & P.J. Yarrow: ‘Liselotte: Rauschenplattenknecht’. German Life and Letters, 59, pp. 405-21. October 1996.

William Brooks: ‘The significance of engravings as examples of the personal iconography of the second Madame, Duchess of Orleans, 1671-1722’. Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 18, pp. 73-89. 1996.

William Brooks & P.J. Yarrow: ‘What Madame saw: some clues to the theatrical taste of "la cour et la ville", 1671-1722’. Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 16, pp. 167-78. 1994.

William Brooks: ‘Mistrust and misconception: music and literature in seventeenth and eighteenth-century France’, Acta Musicologica, 66 no. 1, pp. 22-30. April 1994.

William Brooks & P.J. Yarrow: ‘A note on La Champmeslé and Mlle Desmares’. Theatre Research International, 19 no. 1, p. 67. January 1994.

William Brooks & P.J. Yarrow: ‘Neglected evidence about the actor Michel Baron’. Theatre Research International, 18 no. 3, pp. 173-76. October 1993.

William Brooks: ‘Seventeenth-century culture: Quinault and Lully resurgent’, French Studies Bulletin, 47, pp. 17-19. Summer 1993.

William Brooks & P.J. Yarrow: ‘Observations sur la datation de quelques lettres de Madame, princesse palatine’. XVIIe Siècle, 45 no. 1, pp. 131-38. Janvier-mars 1993.

William Brooks: ‘From lazzi to acrobats: the court’s taste after 1680’. Cahiers du dix-septième, 6, pp. 45-53. 1992.

William Brooks: ‘Quinault criticism, Boileau, and the problem of Racine’, in Théorie dramatique, Théophile de Viau, Les Contes de fées: actes de Las Vegas, edited by Marie-France Hilgar. Paris, Seattle, Tübingen: Biblio 17, 60, pp. 37-48. 1991.

William Brooks: ‘Theatrical success and the chronology of productions at the Hôtel de Bourgogne: new evidence from Racine and Quinault’. Theatre Survey: The American Journal of Theatre History, 30, pp. 35-44. 1989.

William Brooks: ‘Further remarks on Lully and Quinault at court’. Seventeenth Century French Studies, 11, pp. 147-50. 1989.

William Brooks: ‘Lully and Quinault at court and on the public stage 1673-86’. Seventeenth Century French Studies, 10, pp. 101-21. 1988.

William Brooks: ‘A note on Edouard Thierry, Molière, and La Grange’. Seventeenth Century French Studies, 9, pp. 131-32. 1987.

William Brooks: ‘Boileau and an "annonce" by Rosidor at the Marais’. French Studies Bulletin, 21, pp. 6-7. Winter 1986-87.

William Brooks: ‘Chappuzeau and the orateur - a question of accuracy’. Modern Language Review, 81, pp. 305-17. April 1986.

William Brooks: ‘Harangue or dialogue? The publicity of the orateurs on the French stage, 1634-1673’. Seventeenth Century French Studies, 8, pp. 166-76. 1986.

William Brooks: ‘Reflections on seventeenth-century verse "affiches"‘. Theatre Research International, 10, pp. 199-213. Autumn 1985.

William Brooks: ‘A cross word on Robbe-Grillet’s Djinn’. Quinquereme, 8, pp. 196-202. July 1985.

William Brooks: ‘Has Trissotin been misjudged?’. Modern Languages, 66, pp. 27-36. March 1985.

William Brooks: ‘Challes’s friend Boscheron, a compulsive biographer of Quinault: preliminary remarks on a manuscript in the Bréquigny collection’. French Studies Bulletin, 13, pp. 6-8, Winter 1984-85.

William Brooks & J. I. Mason: ‘Musset, "Gamiani", and Paul Alexis’. Quinquereme, 7, pp. 74-76. January 1984.

William Brooks: ‘Regnard’s incompetence’. French Studies Bulletin, 7, pp. 6-9. Summer 1983.

William Brooks: ‘Nouveau roman? Old hat. (Chapeau!)’. Quinquereme, 4, pp. 234-45. July 1981.

William Brooks: ‘Quand le livre devient poche: une sémiologie du livre au format de poche’, review article. Quaerendo (Amsterdam), 8, pp. 355-58. Winter 1978.

William Brooks: ‘Theatre and society: the potential audience of Parisian theatres in the last two decades of the seventeenth century’. Quinquereme, 1, pp. 33-42. January 1978.

William Brooks: ‘Early eighteenth-century editions of Pavillon - a note on editorship’. Quaerendo (Amsterdam), 7, pp. 311-15. Winter 1977.

William Brooks: ‘Polyeucte’s martyrdom: "une autre explication"‘. Modern Language Review, 72, pp. 802-10. October 1977.

William Brooks: ‘Boffrand, Boscheron, and biographies of Quinault’. Nottingham French Studies, 16, pp. 19-28. May 1977.

William Brooks: ‘The masterpiece that brought an era to an end’. Times Higher Education Supplement, 31 December 1976, p. 6.

William Brooks: ‘The tradition of Timocrate and the history of the Marais theatre in 1657’. Modern Language Review, 69, pp. 56-63. January 1974.

William Brooks: ‘The Théâtre du Marais, Quinault’s Comédie sans comédie, and Thomas Corneille’s Illustres Ennemis’. French Studies, 27, pp. 271-77. July 1973.

v. Encyclopedia entries and similar:

William Brooks & Laurence Pope: 'Marie le Bailleul, marquise d'Huxelles',  in  Dictionnaire des femmes de l'ancienne France,  <http://www.siefar.org/DictionnaireSIEFAR/SFHuxelles.html>. Paris: SIEFAR (Société Internationale pour l'étude des Femmes de l'Ancien Régime), May 2006.

William Brooks: 'Élisabeth-Charlotte, princesse palatine, Madame, duchesse d'Orléans (1652-1722)', in Dictionnaire des femmes de l'ancienne France,  <http://www.siefar.org/DictionnaireSIEFAR/SFElisabeth-Charlotte.html>. Paris: SIEFAR (Société Internationale pour l'étude des Femmes de l'Ancien Régime), August 2005.

William Brooks: ‘Antigone’, in Cyclopedia of Literary Places, edited by R. Baird Schuman. 3 vols, Los Angeles: Salem Press, 2003. Vol. 1, p.  53.

William Brooks: ‘The Barber of Seville’, in Cyclopedia of Literary Places, edited by R. Baird Schuman. 3 vols, Los Angeles: Salem Press, 2003. Vol. 1, p. 85.

William Brooks: ‘Cinna’, in Cyclopedia of Literary Places, edited by R. Baird Schuman. 3 vols, Los Angeles: Salem Press, 2003. Vol. 1, pp. 87-88.

William Brooks: ‘The Flies’, in Cyclopedia of Literary Places, edited by R. Baird Schuman. 3 vols, Los Angeles: Salem Press, 2003. Vol. 1, p. 209.

William Brooks: ‘Mithridates’, in Cyclopedia of Literary Places, edited by R. Baird Schuman. 3 vols, Los Angeles: Salem Press, 2003. Vol. 1, pp. 412-13.

William Brooks: ‘Jean-François Regnard’ in The International Dictionary of the Theatre, Vol.2 (‘Playwrights’), edited by M. Hawkins-Dady. London: St. James Press, 1994, pp. 800-2.

William Brooks: ‘Georges de Scudéry’ in The International Dictionary of the Theatre, Vol.2 (‘Playwrights’), edited by M. Hawkins-Dady. London: St. James Press, 1994, pp. 861-63.

William Brooks: ‘Josias de Soulas, dit Floridor’, in The International Dictionary of the Theatre, Vol. 3 (‘Actors, Directors and Designers’), edited by D. Pickering. Detroit: St. James Press, 1996, pp. 283-84.

William Brooks: ‘Julien Bedeau, dit Jodelet’, in The International Dictionary of the Theatre, Vol. 3 (‘Actors, Directors and Designers’), edited by D. Pickering. Detroit: St. James Press, 1996, pp. 387-89.

William Brooks: ‘Cocteau - La Machine infernale’ in A Critical Survey of Twentieth Century Drama. 4 vols, Los Angeles: Salem Press, 1990. Vol. 2, pp. 846-51.

William Brooks: ‘Emile Gaboriau’, in A Critical Survey of Detective Fiction, edited by Frank N. Magill. 4 vols, Los Angeles: Salem Press, 1989. Vol. 2, pp. 680-86.

William Brooks: ‘Cyril Hare’, in A Critical Survey of Detective Fiction, edited by Frank N. Magill. 4 vols, Los Angeles: Salem Press, 1989. Vol. 2, pp. 841-46.

vi. Book reviews:

[In Cahiers du Dix-septième, French Studies, Modern Language Review, Nouveau Moliériste, Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, Quinquereme–New Studies in Modern Languages, Times Higher Education Supplement.]

—  Lettres de femmes: textes inédits et oubliés du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. Ed. by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith and Colette H. Winn. Modern Language Review, 101, p. 846. July 2006.

— Publishing in the Republic of Letters: The Ménage-Grævius-Wetstein Correspondence, 1679-1692, by Richard G. Maber. The Seventeenth Century, 20, pp. 299-300. Autumn 2005.

— Touched by the Graces: The libretti of Philippe Quinault in the context of French classicism by Buford Norman. French Studies, 57, pp. 386-87. July 2003.

— Molière: Le Mariage forcé, édition critique par Julia Prest. Modern Language Review, 96, pp. 1073-74. October 2001.

— Pierre Du Ryer: Lucrèce, édition critique par James F. Gaines et Perry Gethner. Cahiers du Dix-septième, 7, pp. 255-57. Spring 1997.

— Abbé d’Aubignac, Dissertations contre Corneille, édition critique par Nicholas Hammond et Michael Hawcroft. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 24, pp. 315-17. April 1997.

— Paul Scarron, Le Gardien de soy-mesme suivi de Thomas Corneille, Le Geôlier de soy-mesme, introduction et notes par Elisabeth Montet. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 23, pp. 698-99. June 1996.

— Raymond Poisson: La Hollande malade, édition critique par Louisette Navailles. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 23, pp. 405-7. January 1996.

— [Evariste Gherardi]: Le Théâtre italien de Gherardi, I [publié par] Charles Mazouer. Le Nouveau Moliériste, 2, 333-34. 1995.

— Baroquisme et théâtralité: le théâtre de Jean Rotrou, by Jean-Claude Vuillemin. Modern Language Review, 90, pp. 998-99. October 1995.

— Jean-François Regnard: Le Légataire universel suivi de La Critique du Légataire universel, édition critique par Charles Mazouer. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 22, pp. 657-59. April 1995.

— Théâtre du XVIIe siècle, vol. 3, edited by Jacques Truchet & André Blanc. French Studies, 48, p. 97. January 1994.

— Jean Rotrou: Venceslas, édition critique par D.A. Watts. Modern Language Review, 88, p. 974. October 1993.

— Continuum: Problems in French Literature from the Late Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment. Vol. 2: Rethinking Classicism: textual explorations. Edited by David Lee Rubin. Modern Language Review, 87, pp. 982-83. October 1992.

— Claude Boyer: Oropaste ou le Faux Tonaxare, édition critique par Charles Delmas & Georges Forestier. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 19, pp. 232-35. January 1992.

— Scudéry dramaturge, by Eveline Dutertre. Modern Language Review, 85, pp. 730-32. July 1990.

— The French Stage and Playhouse in the XVIIth Century: A Study in the Advent of the Italian Order, by T.E. Lawrenson. Modern Language Review, 84, pp. 472-73. April 1989.

— Recognitions: A Study in Poetics, by Terence Cave. Quinquereme, 12, pp. 116-18. January 1989.

— Théâtre du XVIIe siècle, vol. 2, edited by Jacques Scherer & Jacques Truchet. French Studies, 42, pp. 343-44. July 1988.

— Britannicus, Phaedra, and Athaliah, by Racine, translated by C.H. Sisson. Quinquereme, 10, pp. 240-42. July 1987

— Paul Scarron: Le Jodelet ou le Maistre valet, édition critique par William J. Dickson. Modern Language Review, 82, p. 737. July 1987.

— Molière: La Jalousie du barbouillé et George Dandin, édition critique par N.A. Peacock. Modern Language Review, 82, p. 200. January 1987.

— Jean Anouilh: Eurydice and Médée, edited, and with an introduction and notes by E. Freeman. Quinquereme, 8, pp. 97-98. January 1985.

— Alain Robbe-Grillet, by John Fletcher. Quinquereme, 7, pp. 228-29. July 1984.

— Anouilh: Antigone, by W.D. Howarth. Quinquereme, 7, pp. 109-10. January 1984.

— The Tragic Drama of Corneille and Racine: an old parallel revisited, by H.T. Barnwell. Quinquereme, 7, pp. 104-5. January 1984.

— Essays on seventeenth-century French literature, by Leo Spitzer, translated, edited, and with an introduction by David Bellos. Quinquereme, 7, pp. 103-4. January 1984.

— Jean-François Regnard, by Gifford P. Orwen. Quinquereme, 6, pp. 110-11. January 1983.

— La Conquête de la liberté de Scapin à Figaro: valets, servantes et soubrettes de Molière à Beaumarchais’, by Yves Moraud. Quinquereme, 5, pp. 256-58. July 1982.

— An Introduction to French Classical Tragedy, by C.J. Gossip. Quinquereme, 5, pp. 119-20. January 1982.

— The theatre and its critics in seventeenth-century France, by Henry Phillips. Quinquereme, 4, pp. 282-83. July 1981.

— Pascal, by Alban Krailsheimer. Quinquereme, 4, p. 122. January 1981.

— Le Roman français depuis 1900, by Pierre de Boisdeffre. Quinquereme, 3, pp. 263-64. July 1980.

— Aspects of Seventeenth-century French drama and thought, by Robert McBride. Quinquereme, 3, pp. 124-25. January 1980.

— The Princesse de Clèves, by Madame de Lafayette, translated by Nancy Mitford, revised by Leonard Tancock. Quinquereme, 2, pp. 299-300. July 1979.

— Pascal’s Provincial Letters, by Walter E. Rex. Quinquereme, 2, pp. 142-43. January 1979.

— Modern France - state and society, by Richard Tames. Quinquereme, 1, 286-87. July 1978.

— ‘Pièces de résistance’: An Introduction to the French Theatre, by Peter D. Arnott. Times Education Supplement, 30 December 1977, p. 23.

— ‘His Drama separate from his Life’: De Racine au Parthénon, by Raymond Picard. Times Higher Education Supplement, 13 May 1977, p. 23.

— ‘The Inner Mind’: Pascal: Pensées, edited by Philippe Sellier. Times Education Supplement, 4 June 1976, p. 28.

vii. Other short works:

William Brooks: ‘French Opera at the Court of the Sun King’, in Proceedings of the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 1998, pp. 44-45.

viii. Unpublished report:

William Brooks: ‘Liste chronologique des représentations à la cour, 1680-1722’, with brief commentary, 28 pp., for the library of the Comédie-Française, Paris, 1990.

ix. Editing:

— Member of Editorial Board, Quinquereme - New Studies in Modern Languages, 1978-1990 (General Editor, vols 1-7 (1978-84) and vols 10-12 (1987-89)).

This work included the following special numbers in collaboration with members of the French Department, University of Bristol:

[With W.D. Howarth], ‘Victor Hugo, proceedings of the University of Bristol conference, 1985’, Quinquereme, 10 (January 1987), pp. 1-87;

[With H.T. Mason], ‘Fifty Years On: The Popular Front Era, proceedings of the University of Bristol conference, 1987’, Quinquereme, 11 (January 1988), pp. 1-70;

[With R. Bolster], ‘Balzac: Le Père Goriot and La Cousine Bette, proceedings of the University of Bristol conference, 1988’, Quinquereme, 12 (January 1989), pp. 1-94.

— Member of the Editorial Board, Seventeenth-Century French Studies, since 1999 (General Editor, with effect from vol. 26 (2004)).

— Reader/referee for publishers including Cambridge University Press, Durham Modern Languages Series, Edwin Mellen Press, Routledge, Taylor & Francis;

— Reader/referee for  journals including Cahiers du Dix-septième, French Studies Bulletin, Nottingham French Studies, Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, Seventeenth- Century French Studies.

x. Invited conference papers, session chairing, conference organization, etc.:

Chair of session/Comment on 'Femmes'. Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 28th Annual Conference ('Modernités'), St Catherine's College Oxford, June 2006.

Chair of session/Comment on ‘Poisoned Tongues’. Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 27th Annual Conference (‘Panglossia: Conversation, Gossip, and the Voice in Early Modern France’), Gonville & Caius College Cambridge, Sept. 2005.

Convener and chair of session: ‘Quinault: opera and tragedy’, North American Society for the Study of Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 37th annual conference ('Formes et formations au dix-septième siècle'). University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, April 2005.

Paper: ‘Francophobia and Nostalgia in the letters of Elisabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine’. Society for Interdisciplinary Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 22nd Annual Conference, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, October 2004.

Convener and chair of session: ‘L’esprit et la bêtise’, Society for Interdisciplinary Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 22nd Annual Conference (see previous entry).

Chair of session/Comment on ‘Medical taxonomies in the Journal des Sçavans’, Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 26th Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, Sept. 2004.

Paper: ‘Aliens, drunkards, and Muscovite ambassadors to France in the reign of Louis XIV’. Conference of the Anglo-French-Russian Society, University of Bath, September 2003.

Chair of session/Comment on session devoted to theatrical frames, forming part of the conference entitled ‘Texts, pre-text, para-text, intertext, hypertext’, organized by the European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford, Jan. 2003.

Conference Organizer: ‘Image and Imagination’, being the 25th Annual Conference of the Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, University of Bath, Sept. 2002. (Three-day international conference.)

Chair of session/Comment on ‘Portraits: image and imagination’, 24th Annual Conference of the Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies (see previous entry).  Sept. 2002.

Paper: ‘Discontinuity of plot and performance in French classical plays’, 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, Sept. 2001.

‘L’Etranger reconsidered: a negative view of Meursault.’ Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, March 2001.

Paper: ‘Decrypting the chronology of early French opera: aims, methods, and results’, for the ‘French Classical Theatre Today’ conference. organized by the European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford, Jan. 2000.

Chair of session/Comment on session devoted to the purpose and preparation of critical editions of French Classical theatre, forming part of the conference entitled ‘French Classical Theatre Today’ (see previous entry). Jan. 2000.

Paper: ‘Racine; or the triumph of irrelevance’. Thirty-first annual conference of the North American Society for the Study of Seventeenth Century French Literature, dedicated to Jean Racine, at the University of California Santa Barbara, Oct. 1999.

Paper: ‘Les livrets de Mme de Xaintonge’. Conference entitled ‘Le parcours européen d’Henri Desmarest’ organized by the Université de Nancy II and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, in Pont-à-Mousson and Versailles, Oct. 1999.

Présidence de table, ‘Le cadre de l’exil’, opening session of the conference entitled ‘Le parcours européen d’Henri Desmarest’ (see previous entry). Oct. 1999.

Chair of session/Comment on ‘Musical Orthodoxy and Parody’. Joint Conference of the Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Seventeenth Century French Literature, University of Bristol, July 1998.

‘Opera in the Court of Louis XIV.’ Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, May 1998.

Paper: ‘Perrin, Corneille, and the search for French national style’ session on "Sister Arts", Twenty-ninth annual conference of the North American Society for the Study of Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Victoria BC, April 1997.

Chair of session/Comment on ‘Values and the questioning of values in seventeenth-century France’. 19th annual Conference of the Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, University of Keele, September 1996.

Paper: ‘Engravings of Madame as examples of French portrait engraving, 1671-1722. A case study.’ Session on engravings, Southeast American Society for French Seventeenth-Century Studies, 13th Annual Conference, Athens GA, October 1995.

Conference Organizer: 'French Language Today', Regional Workshop of the Society for French Studies, University of Bath, February 1995.

Chair of round table on ‘Tense in French’, Regional Workshop of the Society for French Studies (see previous entry). February 1995.

Lecture: ‘Regnard’s Joueur’. University College Swansea, January 1995.

Paper: ‘From lazzi to acrobats: the court’s taste after 1680’, Session on theatre, Southeast American Society for French Seventeenth-Century Studies, 11th Annual Conference, Athens GA, October 1993.

Lecture: ‘Towards a definition of French baroque opera’. Bath College of Higher Education, April 1993.

Lecture: ‘From Indo-European to modern European languages’. Bath College of Higher Education, October 1992; repeated November 1993.

Paper: ‘La musique ne saurait narrer: literary attitudes to music in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries’, Session on Literature and Music, Society for French Studies, The Queen’s University, Belfast, April 1992.

Lecture/conference discussion: ‘Words and music: Lully and Quinault in the reign of the Sun King’. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, August 1991; University of Missouri St Louis, September 1991; University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 1991; Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, September 1991.

Lecture: ‘Corneille’s Horace and Cinna’, University of Glasgow, November 1990.

Chair of session/Comment on ‘Modification of history and mythology by Quinault and Racine’. Conference on ‘The perception of history in the seventeenth century’ (13th annual conference), Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, September 1990.

Paper: ‘Quinault criticism, Boileau, and the problem of Racine’, session on "la critique dramatique", Twenty-second annual conference of the North American Society for the Study of Seventeenth-Century French Literature, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, March 1990.

Lecture: ‘The re-evaluation of some secondary French classical tragedies’. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, March 1990.

Paper: ‘Quinault’s Andromaque and Phèdre’. Session on French classical drama, Annual conference, Society for French Studies, University College Swansea, March 1989.

Paper: ‘"La musique avant toute chose?" Political, social, and theatrical aspects of the "tragédies lyriques" of Quinault and Lully’. Conference on ‘La Cour et la Ville au 17e siècle’ (10th annual conference), Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, University of Birmingham, September 1987.

Paper: ‘Quinault’s tragic drama’. Conference organized by the European Humanities Research Centre jointly with University College Dublin and the Université de Caen on the theme ‘French classical drama: towards a definition’, University of Warwick, January 1987.

Chair of session/Comment on ‘Sources of theatrical pleasure in La Calprenède’. 9th annual conference, Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, University of Bristol, September 1986.

Paper: ‘What do we mean by style?’. D.E.S. course NSR98, ‘Teaching Topics and Texts in Foreign Languages’. School of Education, University of Bath, February 1983; repeated February 1984.

Paper: ‘Freedom and constraint in Tartuffe’. Conference entitled ‘Freedom and constraint in French literature’, Kingston Polytechnic, September 1979.

Paper: ‘The achievement of Philippe Quinault’. University of Newcastle upon Tyne Research Seminar Series, February 1972.