Shakespeare for the Age of Reason: The Earliest Stage Adaptations of Jean-Francois Ducis 1769-1792

Table of Contents: 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