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Hamlet: An Eighteenth-Century French Adaptation

Hamlet: An Eighteenth-Century French Adaptation

Ducis, Jean-François
Harris, Joseph

Paperback

Series: Critical Texts, Book 85

Literary CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 1839545453
ISBN13: 9781839545450
Publisher: Texts and Translations
Published: Oct 28 2024
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The premiere of Jean-François Ducis's Hamlet in 1769 marked Shakespeare's first faltering steps onto the French stage. Within a couple of generations, his play had itself been translated so widely that it was better known than Shakespeare's across most of Europe; it has thus aptly been called 'one of the most important Hamlets of all time'. Ducis, who spoke no English, takes copious liberties with his Shakespearean source material, attempting to tap into the dramatic power of the English original without unduly shocking French sensibilities or transgressing 'classical' French dramatic conventions. Yet Ducis also returned to the play quite obsessively across his life, reordering scenes and sometimes changing the ending considerably.

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