Shakespeare for the age of reason

the earliest stage adaptations of Jean-François Ducis 1769-1792

Author: John Golder

Volume: 295

Series: SVEC

Publication Date: 1992

Pages: 411

ISBN: 978-0-7294-0433-4

Price: £60


About

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Jean-François Ducis: a chronology
Introduction
1. Hamlet
2. Roméo et Juliette
3. Le Roi Léar
4. Macbeth
5. Jean Sans-Terre
6. Othello
Conclusion
Appendices
A: Cast-lists for the first performances and major revivals of Ducis’s Shakespearean plays between 1769 and 1813
B: The early manuscript versions of Macbeth
C: Ducis’s lost Shakespearean play: Timon le misanthrope
Selective bibliography
Index

Voltaire Foundation

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