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Classicizing Shakespeare: Jean-François Ducis and the First European Adaptations

By Michèle Willems, Mark Thornton Burnett (Editor)
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By Michèle Willems, Mark Thornton Burnett (Editor)
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This book explores the nature and wide-ranging impact of the work of Jean-François Ducis (1733-1816), the first adaptor of Hamlet and of five other Shakespeare tragedies for the French theatre.

Jean-François Ducis is anything but prominent in the histories of Shakespeare adaptation, yet he was pivotal in introducing French and European audiences to Shakespeare's plays on the stage. His Hamlet, tragédie imitée de l'anglais, performed at the Comédie française in 1769, was the first representat...

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LiteratureLiterary CriticismDrama - Literary CriticismEnglish LiteratureEnglish Drama - 16th-17th Century - Elizabethan & Jacobean Eras - Shakespeare - Literary Criticism