François Laroque (born 26 April 1948) is a French academic and translator specialising in the works of

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. He is

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of the

University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 The Sorbonne Nouvelle University (, also known as Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Sorbonne) is a public liberal arts and humanities university in Paris, France. It is one of the inheritors of the hi ...

since 2014.

Career

François Laroque is a former student of the

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, he graduated with a Docteur d'État in 1985. He taught

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at the

Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III Paul may refer to: People * Paul (given name), a given name, including a list of people * Paul (surname), a list of people * Paul the Apostle, an apostle who wrote many of the books of the New Testament * Ray Hildebrand, half of the singing duo ...

from 1973 to 1990, then at the New Sorbonne University in

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from 1990 to 2014. He is a Shakespeare specialist and a member of the centre for

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research at Paul Valéry University. In addition to numerous articles on Shakespeare’s plays and on the attitudes and folklore of Elizabethan England, Laroque is also the author of (1988), translated into English and published at

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in 1991 under the title ''Shakespeare’s Festive World''. He wrote for the

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‘

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’, translated into ten languages, including English, and often reprinted, as well as a collaborator on an anthology of English literature. He participated in the writing of a two-volume

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, the , published in the collection ‘

Bibliothèque de la Pléiade The ''Bibliothèque de la Pléiade'' (, "Pleiades Library") is a French editorial collection which was created in 1931 by Jacques Schiffrin, an independent young editor. Schiffrin wanted to provide the public with reference editions of the ...

’ on 22 October 2009.

Selected publications

* ''The Journal of François Laroque'', Ye Galleon Press, 1981 * ''Shakespeare’s Festive World: Elizabethan Seasonal Entertainment and the Professional Stage'', Cambridge University Press, 1991, paperback in 1993 * Co-author with and André Topia, ''Anthologie de la littérature anglaise'', Presses Universitaires de France, 1991 * ''Shakespeare : Comme il vous plaira'', collection «

» (nº 126), série Littératures. Éditions Gallimard, 1991 (eleven international editions: American,

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, Hungarian,

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, Portuguese,

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, Swedish, Simplified and

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) ** US edition – ''The Age of Shakespeare'', "

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" series. Harry N. Abrams, 1993 ** UK edition – ''Shakespeare: Court, Crowd and Playhouse'', ‘

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’ series. Thames & Hudson, 1993 * Co-editor with Pierre Iselin and Sophie Alatorre, ''"And that’s true too": New Essays on King Lear'', Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009 * ''Dictionnaire amoureux de Shakespeare'', Plon, 2016 ;Translations * ''Roméo et Juliette'', Livre de Poche, 2005 * ''Le marchand de Venise'', Le livre de Poche, 2008 * ''La Tempête'', Livre de Poche, 2011

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Laroque, Francois 1948 births English–French translators Shakespearean scholars École Normale Supérieure alumni Living people